How do I find my right click Send To option?

[madfloridian]

I followed the directions on this page for Windows 7, but when I get to the Send To part and look for an executable file to choose next...there is no Browse option. Any ideas? Help.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/i-have-windows-7-and-cannot-locate-the-send-to/652b4c8a-e743-46c4-a554-c1c8b334ee35

HOW TO CREATE "SENDTO" LINKS TO YOUR RIGHT-CLICK MOUSE POP-UP MENU IN WINDOWS 7:

FOLDER FOR CREATING SHORTCUTS IN EXISTING SENDTO FOLDER:

C:Users%username%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo

Go to this folder shown above and...

Right click in the right window pane where other shortcuts are listed

Choose create shortcut

Browse for executable program (such as notepad.exe)

Choose Ok

Choose Next

Name the shortcut with a descriptive name of the shortcut

Choose Finish

[Make7]

1. When you right click in the folder and select 'New > Shortcut' doesn't a dialog box prompt for that?

It should have a text entry field labeled 'Type the location of the item:' and should have a browse button directly to the right of the text entry area.

What are you seeing?

[madfloridian]

2. okay...finally got the dialogue box you mention

Says to type the location of the short cut. On the browse I see a list of programs but no notepad and nothing that looks right to use.
One Note is there, but there's nothing executable.

I am just not sure what to put in the box.

Maybe I can find another way.

[Make7]

3. You could copy the location of the program you want to use from its shortcut in your Start menu.

Find the program in your Start menu, right-click and choose Properties. That should bring up a Properties dialog box with the Shortcut tab selected. Copy all the text (including quotes if present) in the Target text field. It should look something like:

[div class="excerpt" style="display:inline-block; margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #bfbfbf inset;"]"C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe"

That is the address you want to use when you create the new Shortcut in your C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder. Paste it in where it says 'Type the location of the item:'.

[madfloridian]

4. I need to take a break on this. Head is spinning.

Thanks for your help.

[Make7]

5. Maybe we should start from the beginning.

Describe in a paragraph (or two) exactly what you are trying to accomplish.

[madfloridian]

6. I'm back lol

Had intermittent modem problems, so just gave up for a while. I have Send To option on the Desktop icons, though a limited choice. I am gradually adding more now using the system above.

What bothers me is that I know I have in the past been able to right click a program in the Start Menu and see the Send To option. I have some programs whose icons disappear from the desktop at times, and I have been able to right click and send a shortcut there.

There is no Send To option in the Start Menu. I recently downloaded Sumatra PDF. I don't want it in the taskbar, but I would like a link on the desktop. But I don't have the option.

So that is what is mostly bothering me now.

Oh, BTW I found a sample page of how my Send To page should look. Mine does not look that way. There is an empty right panel.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/customize-the-windows-vista-send-to-menu/

[ManiacJoe]

7. That is not the "start" menu.

That is the "context" menu you get when you right-click an item in the File Explorer window.

The "start" menu never had a "send to" option since that would require you to first click on the thing to send.

[madfloridian]

8. I don't think we are talking about the same thing.

I may not be a computer expert, but I do know what I have done in the past.

[Make7]

11. Most programs in the start menu won't have a send to option.

You can still use them to create desktop shortcuts - but there are a couple of extra steps.

Right-click on a program in the Start menu and choose Properties. In the resulting dialog box click the Open File Location button near the bottom left. That should open up the folder with the program's executable file highlighted. Right-click that and you should have the Send to > Desktop option.

You can do a similar thing with the Sumatra PDF icon in your taskbar. Right-click it and then in the resulting context menu right-click the program icon. That should get you the same Properties dialog box as above, just click the Open File Location button, etc, etc.

Once you have a shortcut for that on the desktop, you can right-click the Sumatra PDF icon in your taskbar and choose Unpin this program from taskbar in that context menu.

And I still don't understand your initial problem. Is it that you don't seem to have any choices in your Send to option from the standard file context menu, or that you can't add more choices?

[madfloridian]

12. I will try that method, thanks.

Actually I can add the choice now, but I wonder where they went? Thanks for your help.

[madfloridian]

14. Thank you, that worked.

Never thought of that, don't ever remember doing that.

But now Sumatra is on the desktop.

Thanks so much.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. Are you opening:

C:Users%username%AppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo

...and being sure to include all the backslashes?

Are you signed in with admin rights?

[madfloridian]

10. Yes, to both.

In spite of no right pane at the page at the end I have managed to add a couple of places to the Send To from programs already on the desktop.

I have 2 programs esp. that I don't want in the taskbar. They are in the Start Menu, but when I right click I get run as administrator (I am), pin to taskbar, unpin from Start Menu, remove from this list, and properties.

I have often in the past been able to create a shortcut to send the icon to the desktop. Now there is no option.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. I think your desktop shortcut...

...in your SendTo folder has been deleted.

Restore it by creating a new short cut and instead of using browse, paste this in:

"C:\Users\%username%\Desktop"