Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Windows Hack - Hack SendTo right click menu - Works for XP/Vista etc.

Have you ever needed to modify the "send to" items under ur right-click menu?

Microsoft's Windows Shell is probably the easiest way to modify the sendto, Windows Shell also serves as a shortcut to serveral commanly used commands and directories.

This is one of the features of windows which isn't widely known.

To modify "sendto" follow the steps:-
1) Open Windows Explorer
2) In the Location Bar type shell:sendto
3) Hit Enter

That's it! Add/Remove any item as you please and it will change the items in send to under your right-click menu accordingly.

You can also use several other shell commands such as
( Please note: You will use them as shell:command . Some of these commands work only in Vista and is not supported in XP)

AddNewProgramsFolder (i.e shell:addnewprogramsfolder)
Administrative Tools
AppData
AppUpdatesFolder
Cache
CD Burning
ChangeRemoveProgramsFolder
Common Administrative Tools
Common AppData
Common Desktop
Common Documents
Common Programs
Common Start Menu
Common Startup
Common Templates
CommonDownloads
CommonMusic
CommonPictures
CommonVideo
ConflictFolder
ConnectionsFolder
Contacts
ControlPanelFolder
Cookies
CredentialManager
CryptoKeys
CSCFolder
Default Gadgets
Desktop
Downloads
DpapiKeys
Favorites
Fonts
Gadgets
Games
GameTasks
History
InternetFolder
Links
Local AppData
LocalAppDataLow
LocalizedResourcesDir
MAPIFolder
My Music
My Pictures
My Video
MyComputerFolder
NetHood
NetworkPlacesFolder
OEM Links
Original Images
Personal
PhotoAlbums
Playlists
PrintersFolder
PrintHood
Profile
ProgramFiles
ProgramFilesCommon
ProgramFilesCommonX86
ProgramFilesX86
Programs
Public
PublicGameTasks
Quick Launch
Recent
RecycleBinFolder
ResourceDir
SampleMusic
SamplePictures
SamplePlaylists
SampleVideos
SavedGames
Searches
SendTo
Start Menu
Startup
SyncCenterFolder
SyncResultsFolder
SyncSetupFolder
System
SystemCertificates
SystemX86
Templates
TreePropertiesFolder
UserProfiles
UsersFilesFolder
Windows
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