April 2002
Beginner
640 pages
27h 54m
English
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Name
Send To
Synopsis
Send a selected item to a program, disk drive, or folder.
To Open
File or folder’s context menu → Send To
Right-click on any file or folder and select Send To to send it to one of the shortcuts in your SendTo folder. The result is the same as though you drag-dropped the icon onto the shortcut (see Figure 3-25).
Figure 3-25. Right-clicking any file or folder, selecting Send To, and choosing a destination has the same result as dragging and dropping the item to the destination, but Send To is often more convenient
For example, if the destination is an application, the application will be started and the selected file(s) will be opened. If the destination is a folder or a drive, the item(s) will be copied or moved (depending on several circumstances described in Chapter 2).
Notes
The options that appear in the Send To menu are determined by the contents of the
\Documents and Settings\{username}\SendTofolder. To add another Send To recipient, create a shortcut in that folder. For example, if you put a shortcut tonotepad.exeinto that folder (which I find extremely handy), you could easily open any file in Notepad, regardless of the file type.
Warning
Send To works a bit differently, depending on the destination. Sending to a folder (including the Recycle Bin) actually moves the file there or copies if the source and destination are on different drives; sending to ...
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