Timeless Tales

There is a feature in Windows which isn’t too known called the send-to menu. Right-click any file and you’ll see it there, with options to send the file to a mail recipient, fax it and so on. I find these options terribly useless, with possibly the exception of send to compressed archive, but since I use a separate tool for that it becomes redundant.

There is a way to modify that menu and put shortcuts in to whatever you want, let’s take a look at how to do it. Windows XP users, open up the run box and simply enter “sendto” and you’re there. Windows Vista users need to type “%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo” into the same place. Vista stores all this in the folder “Users\User\Appdara\Microsoft\SenTo” and the %APPDATA% string will whisk you away to that folder with your current user.

Once there you can create and delete shortcuts as usual, and you will be able to access them from the right-click menu. I use this heavily in my job where I assign different tasks to people. I usually process 5-10 at once and them send them to 1-3 people. When I’m done with one, I quickly send it to the Assignments folder. All the assignments I need to send will be copied there, so I can just pull them into an email as an attachment and delete them when done. This is a great way to productively manage work flow like this actually!