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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>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

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.

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:
This method should work for any application that allows you to open a file by using a
command line argument.

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