If you have a Windows 8 computer, you can add items to the Windows 8 Send To Context Menu. This is a great way to add items to the context menu of programs that you use frequently. To add an item to the context menu of a program, open the program and click on its icon in the taskbar. Then, click on the Add Item button. The Add Item dialog box will appear. In this dialog box, you will need to provide information about the item you want to add to the context menu. For example, you can provide a name for the item, an address for where it can be found in your computer, or a description of what it does. Once you have provided all of this information, click on OK to add the item to the context menu of your program.
Customizing the Windows “Send To” context menu is a handy trick people have employed for years to speed up their workflow. Let’s take a look at how you can edit the “Send To” menu in Windows 8 to enjoy a productivity boost.
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
The Question
SuperUser reader Mondain wants to add items to his “Send To” context menu, but the technique that he used for Windows 7 doesn’t work for him in Windows 8.
How can we do it and how does it differ from adding items in previous versions of Windows?
The Answer
SuperUser contributor Ofiris shares a “Send To” menu tip:
Ofiris’s tip covers two bases: first it shows us where the actual location of the “Send To” shortcuts are in Windows 8, but it also covers the shell:sendto command. Ofiris’s assement that it is more correct to run shell:sendto is spot on as, regardless of the version of Windows you are running, it will direct you to the appropriate folder–it’s the same technique we recommend for adding “Send To” shortcuts in Windows 7.
%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
Enter
Add your shortcut there.
Note: it might be more correct to run: shell:sendto
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