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Customise 'Send To' for Windows 7

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Some times it's useful to be able to add our own utilities to the 'Send To' menu in Windows.

Windows 7 - SendTo Customisation

In Windows XP this was very easy to find. In Windows 7, the directory for 'Send To' is not trivial to find. Its actual location is here:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

This maps to:

%APPDATA% is an environment variable that actually maps to something like C:\users\<username>\AppData\Roaming

Inside this directory you can add your custom program.

NB. If you used to have a 'Send to' utility to open the command prompt on a particular directory,  Windows 7 now allows you to do this, buy holding the 'Shift' key and right clicking on the folder. A new option should be visible 'Open Command Window Here'

Windows 7 - Shift Right Click

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 13:04