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- MikeDawg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18This is absolute GOLD here. I've been honestly thinking, "What is this 'Send To' crap, when it should be 'Move To' and/or 'Copy To'".
Thank you for finding this article. - jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Hold Ctrl when clicking on a place in Send To and it should make a copy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Because it saves you having to open the target. Why must you get so aggravated just because people do things differently?
- diggduggjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is an elegant tweak. Yes, they are on the menu in Explorer, but you must highlight it first, click the menu button and then proceed. There is much less mouse movement this way.
Additionally, this is far more powerful than this article implies. You can right click and get these options everywhere, even in a file open dialog box in another program. This is more than a Windows Explorer tweak, but a system wide Explorer Shell tweak!
Simply, this is nice. Especially, when you are opening a file and discover something was saved wrong, a click and you are on the way to putting it in the right spot! - Ashkc88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You realize that digg is populated with nerds right?
- tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Also, if you use Windows Explorer, goto View, then Toolbars, then Customize. On the left side, there are copy and move to buttons you can add to the right side. Close that and the copy and move to buttons should be next to the Views button.
- hobg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This isn't really recommended. Read this post on Raymond Chen's blog:
What goes wrong when you add "Copy To" to the context menu - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/02/66160.aspx
(Raymond Chen is a programmer for the Windows Shell team - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chen) - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Speaking of that, here's a command line tool that has about seven billion switches:
http://www.xxcopy.com
Of particular note, you can use this to move/copy all files that are older/newer than a certain date, or which are more/less than N days old, using either last modified or last accessed timestamp. Extensive documentation. Free for personal use. - Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Or maybe we KNOW where we want to go but don't want to navigate the entire file tree just to do a stupid right click and drag!
- randyzhang, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8works like a charm, digg+ &My#1
- code_of_life, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Slashes missing...Retry....
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}" - Flyerman85, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5yeah there is no need for a reg hack.... as tsupersonic said
- MrRockabilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like to use the side buttons on my mouse. Just assign keystrokes versus actual actions. Works great . . . SendtoX is probably the best way to go. I remember using it for Windows 9.xx as well, thanks for taking me back to the good old days Nougat.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Found one:
http://www.thirdstar.net/beeline/images/Copy_To_Context_Menu.gif
Hoped it would be a cascading menu, guess not. - Smiles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This one deletes them, if you want to go back:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Copy To]
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Move To] - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just added these registry entries and attempted to reproduce the symptoms described by Mr. Chen using WinXP SP2 and Outlook 2000 - no symptoms found.
I understand the issue he's describing, but I'm not seeing it in action. - sanfordsweet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2glad it helped...
- Eccohawk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another great little trick is to add a shortcut to the 'Send To' folder within the 'Send To' folder itself. Then you can add new 'Send To' locations on the fly.
- alexrandall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My SendTo folder has shortcuts to notepad, wordpad, vlc, media player classic, etc. It is easier way to open a file in different program without changing default File Types. And it also has Python and Perl scripts for file backup and MD5 checking.
Great digg. - lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why put the options on the context menu....they are on the standard toolbar in explorer by default.....
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't even think you have to add the buttons to the standard toolbar....I believe they are a there by default....
- GezusK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've had that to happen, where the Copy To would come up unexpectedly, but I just thought I had done something wrong. I repeated same action, and it didn't come up a second time. So it isn't a consistent error, just occasional. It doesn't happen often enough for me to remove this handy feature.
- xiangxianni, on 02/09/2009, -0/+1They can also resume the process in case of some failure (power out or sth)
http://www.registrycleanersreviews.info - AlphaToxic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just giving more options:
- KillCopy http://killprog.narod.ru/killcopye.html
- TotalCopy http://www.ranvik.net/totalcopy/
Those two not only add the "move to" and "copy to" lines, but also give you "pause/resume", speed limits and other nice things. They can also resume the process in case of some failure (power out or sth). I personally prefer the first one, it can even show a graph and has skins!! I couldn't live without those when I was using windows. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Unless you've added the SendToX extension (from Win95 PowerToys), you can only send to the places designated in the send to menu. This brings a dialog box with a folder tree. Move/Copy to anywhere.
- rivviepop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It would appear to me that, while valid, Raymond's problem - while undesireable - wouldn't affect a lot of people. Everyone reading this article probably wants these context items to do file management within the explorer shell, not while using Outlook.
$0.02US - netburnr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wonder how long till someone posts one of these things with malicious code, and hundreds of people do it and screw up thier systems...
And thanks for digging me down for pointing the typical way of getting copy/move in a context menu... - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Learn the registry" is much easier said than done. If you're a developer, great. If you're not a developer, trying to learn the registry is going to be an exercise in futility. Not everyone is a developer, and you shouldn't have to be a developer to use a computer.
- Shadar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not everone uses explorer?
- VashTSPD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1does anyone know of a way to get rid of all those archive and add to options on someone's right click menu?
- tw0bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sanfordsweet, you are the man, Im going to add you to my friends cuz this is AWESOME! I have thought about this everyday of my life
- Shadar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, just learn the registry... it's your fault your computer runs slow/crashes/has spyware/etc if you don't have hundreds of hours to devote towards learning the extremely simple registry. Or you could spend 15 minutes and download a few tweaks like this instead and spend the rest of the time with your family/friends/playing games/watching tv/doing work/etc.
- yottamedia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1FYI peeps eg IPcustom, the copy to and move to arent in the default standard toolbar, but of course it takes like 2 seconds to add them.
BTW reg hacks can get so much more fun than this. Try learning to login to your own XP pro box 3 times, at the same time. Like linux multidesktops.... as one off the top of my head.
And netburner all it takes is to read the code....u can see that Code of life's code doesnt do anything other than add the CLSID for the move to and copy to folder
Learn the registry, it saves buying so many progs...or risking spyware filled "tweakers" - Shadar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Maybe I'm just a bit slow... but I've never known there was a 'send to' folder. Where is it? I just did a quick search through my XP and didn't find it... people are acting like it is common knowledge though.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Not everyone uses Windows Explorer.
- Aztlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You don't have to hack windows for this.
"Move this file" and "Copy this file" are on the right side under "File and Folders Tasks"
Also under the "Edit"
is "Copy to Folder" & "Move to folder"
I just like to use the "folders" button on the tool bar and just drag my files to any folder. - code_of_life, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2save the below to a text file with a .reg extension Ex: addCopyMoveTo.reg, right click on the file and choose Merge.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjectsshellexContextMenuHandlersCopy To]
@="{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjectsshellexContextMenuHandlersMove To]
@="{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}" - porkstacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1'bout freakin' time!!! Dugg.
- ryan4477, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow this rocks! dugg and its my number one! telling all my friends! and listening to good music right now, Brian Setzer! oh yeah! good music and a registry hack! this is a good day!!!!
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I've been using the SendToX extension on XP for a long long time (part of the Windows 95 PowerToys, google for it). This is much better.
- GezusK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ooo...why don't we just use command line all the time too...geez.
- rmcc8, on 09/21/2008, -0/+0I use max registry fix cleaner for my computer. it works great.
http://registry-cleaners-soft.com/ - sanza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1You don't need a reg hack or a program to MOVE a file from the SEND TO menu option. Just hold down your SHIFT key when you click on the location you want it to go to. It's built right into the OS.
Right click on the file(s) you want moved.
Place the pointer on the SEND TO menu.
Hold your SHIFT key down and left click on the destination.
Your file is now moved. - grimfandango, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2BEAUTIFUL!
- docsmody, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Just use the Send To Powertoy which adds "Any Folder" under the send to option. You can install it here
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTSendToX.asp - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2A screenshot of what exactly? Of the context menu? The options "Move To ..." and "Copy To ..." are there when you right click a file. Imagine that in your head, should be good enough.
- willhaney, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1The "Download Now" button seems to be broken right now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Color me stupid, but aren't send to and move to the same?
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2"You realize that digg is populated with nerds right?"
Yeah nerds that don't realize that "copy to" and "move to" are on the standard toolbar in explorer....I believe there are less nerds here than everyone thinks. - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Can someone make a screenshot?
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