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How do I add options to Vista's Send To menu?

--Morris Schultz, via e-mail

Windows Explorer's Send To feature has always been cool. You right-click a file, select Send To, and then choose where you want to send the file from the resulting submenu. Adding your own options to the Send To menu was easy in previous versions of Windows, if you knew the trick: Select Start,Run, type sendto, and press Enter. Any shortcut you placed in the resulting folder would appear on the Send To submenu.

Alas, that trick doesn't work with Vista. Try it, and an error message will tell you that access to C:\Users\youraccountname\SendTo is denied. That's because the SendTo "folder" at that location isn't really a folder but a pointer to another folder.

So the trick is to open that other folder. Click Start, type %appdata%\microsoft\windows\sendto, and press Enter.

If you can't remember that long command (I know I can't), here's a way to make things easier on yourself:

With the SendTo folder open, right-drag the SendTo folder in the left pane's Folder section to the Start Menu's All Programs,Accessories submenu (be sure to drop it into a space between menu items, not directly onto a menu item). When you lift your finger off the mouse, select Create Shortcut Here. Now clicking Start, typing sendto, and pressing Enter should bring up the right folder.