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Click a heading below to reveal the tips.
See the Context Menu Tips Page for how to do the same customisation using the Context menu instead.
See help on customising and using reg files. See the Quick View page for more.
This tip allows the printing of a directory listing to a printer or text file.
Copy the following line into a new Text Document and call it PrintDir.bat. Save it in a folder of your choice, C:\Windows\Command would be a good choice.
@dir /a /v %1 > Prn
or use this command line to list to a text file on the desktop,
@dir /a /v %1 >> C:\windows\desktop\Filelist.txt
A single > replaces the file while a double > adds to the file. See the Context Menu tips page for more information.
Right click this file and choose copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Click a blank area and choose Paste Shortcut.
Right click the new shortcut and choose properties. On the Program tab click Close on exit. Press OK. Press F2 and rename the shortcut to what you want it to say in the Send To menu.
This add an item to the Send To menu that will open Edit in binary view so any file can be viewed.
Copy the lines below into a new Text Document and save it as BinaryView.bat. C:\Windows\Command is a good place to put it.
@C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EDIT /78 /r "%1"
or for 43 line view
@C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EDIT /78 /r /h "%1"
Right click the file and choose copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click a blank space and choose Paste Shortcut.
Right click the new shortcut and choose properties. On the Program tab click Close on exit. On the Misc tab uncheck Warn if still active. Press OK. Press F2 and rename the shortcut to what you want it to say in the Send To menu.
Adds Open With to the Send To menu.
Copy the lines below into a new Text Document and save it as OpenWith.bat. C:\Windows\ is a good place to put it.
@Start rundll32.exe shell32.dll,OpenAs_RunDLL "%1"
Right click the file and choose copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click a blank space and choose Paste Shortcut.
Right click the new shortcut and choose properties. On the Program tab click Close on exit. On the Misc tab uncheck Warn if still active. Press OK. Press F2 and rename the shortcut to what you want it to say in the Send To menu.
This will add Register and Unregister to the context menu for OCX and DLL files. Only COM objects can be registered and unregistered. All OCXs are COM objects and most new DLLs (but not older DLLs). COM objects can also be EXE files as well but most of these register themselves if run. This is great for repairing Windows and applications that use COM.
To register COM objects requires only a shortcut, to unregister them requires a shortcut and a batch file. This is because shortcuts on the Send To menu have any switches specified ignored.
Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click a blank area and choose New then Shortcut. Type the following into the wizard.
Regsvr32.exe
Click Next then name the shortcut Register COM.
Copy the following lines into a new Text Document. Save it as UnRegister.bat in a location of your choice. There are two alternative command lines you can use. The first assumes that Windows is installed in C:\Windows, if not edit it to suit. This is the quickest. The second uses Start to provides a Windows command line. The difference is Dos command lines search the current directory and the path, Windows command lines search the program's directory (the program trying to run the other program, not applicable here), the current directory, the Windows directory, the system directory, the path, and then the registry (see tip on Tips and Hacks page).
C:\Windows\System\Regsvr32 /u "%1"
or
Start Regsvr32 /u "%1"
Right click the batch file and choose Copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click and choose Paste Shortcut. Press F2 and name it Unregister COM.
Its possible to create the batch file in the Send To menu. Then then the shortcut isn't needed.
This add an item to the Send To menu that will toggle the system attribute of any file or folder.
The direction for creating ToggleSystemBit.vbs (or ReportSystemBit.vbs for the new Windows 2000 shell) are on the Context Menu tips page.
Copy the lines below into a new Text Document and save it as ToggleSys.bat in the same folder you saved ToggleSystemBit.vbs (this assumes C:\Windows, if not edit the path).
@wscript c:\windows\ToggleSystemBit.vbs "%1"
or if using ReportSystemBit.vbs
@wscript c:\windows\ReportSystemBit.vbs "%1"
Right click the file and choose copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click a blank space and choose Paste Shortcut.
Right click the new shortcut and choose properties. On the Program tab click Close on exit. On the Misc tab uncheck Warn if still active. Press OK. Press F2 and rename the shortcut to what you want it to say in the Send To menu.
Copy following line into a new Text Document. Rename it something.reg. Double click it. This fixes the one problem that installing Win95 Power Toys Send To causes. It still worthwhile installing then fixing for the added functionally of Send To Powertoys. Win98 Send To Desktop As Shortcut and Powertoys Send to Mail can't co-exist, but Win 98 includes it's own Send To Mail.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DeskLink]
@="CLSID\\{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}]
"NeverShowExt"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}\InProcServer32]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\SENDMAIL.DLL"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\explorer.exe,-103"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}\shellex\DropHandler]
@="{9E56BE61-C50F-11CF-9A2C-00A0C90A90CE}"
The mail powertoys conflict with Send To Desktop as Shortcut. All the other powertoys are safe to install except Tweakui which the Windows 98 version is on your CD-Rom. Type
D:\tools\reskit\powertoy\tweakui.inf
in the Start - Run dialog box to install.
| Key | Description | |
| File System Objects | ||
| Control | Copies a file | |
| Shift | Moves a file | |
| Control and Shift | Creates a shortcut | |
| Send To Powertoys (except Send To Clipboard as Contents) | ||
| Control | Uses the short file name rather than the long file name | |
| Send To Clipboard as Contents Powertoys | ||
| Control | Displays a dialog box to select the clipboard data formats | |
This add an item to the Send To menu that will open Explorer in a view where the selected folder will become the top level folder in a new Explorer window.
Copy the lines below into a new Text Document and save it as RootExplore.bat. C:\Windows is a good place to put it.
@explorer.exe /e,/root,%1
Right click the file and choose copy. Type Sendto in the Start - Run dialog box. Right click a blank space and choose Paste Shortcut.
Right click the new shortcut and choose properties. On the Program tab click Close on exit. The Icon can also be changed to Explorer's icon, choose Icon, then browse, then navigate to c:\windows\explorer.exe and choose OK, double click thr folder icon. On the Misc tab uncheck Warn if still active. Press OK.
Press F2 and rename the shortcut to what you want it to say in the Send To menu.