Power Up and Manage Your Windows Send To Menu with Send To Toys

Someone says I had not feature the Send To Toys utility, a great count to your Send To menu that lets you pick any folder to send a file to, send the file name to the clipboard, or a number of other helpful description. Now I will show you that how it works.
Many of you may memorize the old Send to X Powertoy that was included way back in the Windows 95 days. The Send To Toys utility is a similar add-on that offers the same functionality, plus a lot more.

Installation process:

The installation process is very simple, and even gives you a quick formation screen so you can turn on or off some of the features during install. You can easily configure these items later, so do not worry about feat it now.

Configuring Send To Toys:

Installation process will open up the configuration dialog at the ending, but if you want to get to it later on, you can find it under Control Panel’s Additional Options section. If you are running 64-bit Windows, you will have to look under the 32-bit section as well.

After that you should see Send To Toys in the list. The first tab on the configuration dialog is very helpful, it lets you add or remove folders and items from the Send To menu. Of course without the utility you could do this manually by opening the shell:sendto folder and dragging and dropping, but this is a lot easier.

The Add button will pop up a dialog letting you quickly choose what to add to the menu. The Folder tab allows you to configure which folder is the default in the “Folder…” send-to item added by this utility. The two really remarkable options here are the “Open destination on completion”, which will open up the folder you presently sent the file to… and “Default to move”, which is pretty self-explanatory.

The Clipboard tab show you some of the great options for the “Send to Clipboard” item… you can choose whether or not you want quotation marks, and whether you want files to be separated on different lines, if you send multiple files to the clipboard. The defaulting Mail Recipient tab was very capable, but that feature did not work for me. The idea is that you can specify a single mail recipient to send a file.

But at any time I tried to use the feature I got a failure message. If that feature does not work for you either, you can easily just remove the item from the menu using the Send To configuration tab.

Using Send To Toys:

Now that you have run through the configuration dialogs, it is time to right-click a file and look at your Send To menu. One of the generally useful items is the Folder… item, which pops up a dialog allowing you to copy, move, or just generate a shortcut to the file.

If you sent the file to the Run… item in its place, you’d get the Run dialog with the filename pre-populated… very helpful if you want to run the application with command line arguments with no trouble. Send to Command Prompt works similarly, but pre-populates a command prompt with the name of the file.

You will also notice new items when you right-click on an executable file, allow you to quickly Add or Remove that application from the Send To menu. On the whole, it is a very useful utility, well worth checking out if you use the Send To menu a lot. Note that it works fine in any version of Windows.