You’ve seen the SendTo folder in action any time you right-click a file and select the Send To folder from the context menu. What you might be unaware of is that you can customize the items in this menu.
Go ahead, right click a file and choose Send To from the menu. You should see something that looks like this:
Oct 06, 2017 Learn how to edit, add, remove items from the NEW context menu in Windows 10/8/7. Clean up the right click New context menu using Registry or freeware. Jun 24, 2016 How to Edit the context menu in Windows 10? Whenever I try to open a folder by a double-click, instead of opening the folder, the following pop-up appears. This may be because of this cmd option in the context menu, which started appearing a few days ago.
Changing the Send To Shortcuts
To get to the SendTo folder, you’ll need to open up an Explorer window, and then paste in the following to the address bar.
shell:sendto
This is a special value that actually maps to the real folder, which is found in C:Users<yourusername>AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo
You should now see a bunch of shortcuts, which you can modify or delete as you see fit. Fax recipient? Really? Sounds like a good one to delete.
Modify Context Menu Windows 10
Adding Items to the Send To Menu
Let’s say you wanted to add an item to the Send To menu to open files in Notepad. You could just drag a shortcut to Notepad into this folder, or create a new shortcut. Now you can see the new Notepad item in the menu:
How To Edit Context Menu
This method should work for any application that allows you to open a file by using a command line argument.
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