Quick Tip: Add More Destinations to the “Send To” in Windows

In Windows, there is this handy “Send To” option when you right click on a file or folder in Windows Explorer. In case you do not know, you can add more “places” to the list of where you can send a file or a folder to. Here is how you can do that.

So, say you are in a folder and you want to view the content of a file in Notepad:

You double click on the file. Suddenly, you are faced with this annoying window:

But you just want to open the file in Notepad.

Ok, go to c:\windows, right click on notepad.exe and select “Copy”, or select Edit/Copy from the menu bar.

Then go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo (replace username with your own Windows username). from the Windows Explorer’s menu bar, select Edit/Paste Shortcut. If you want you can also right click on the newly created notepad shortcut and rename it to just “Notepad” for example.

Note: SendTo is a hidden folder. To view hidden files and folders, from the Windows Explorer menu bar, select Tools/Folder Options/View/Show hidden files and folders.

Now, back to the file you wanted to open in notepad, right click on it and “Send To” Notepad:

And voila, the file opens in Notepad.

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Mark Russell wrote:
Hi,

to take it a step further, create a .bat file to process the selected file, so instead of opening the file in notepad the example below will tkprof your trace file, you can do it with all sorts of things e.g. ifcmp60

Cheers

Mark

@echo off

TITLE Tkprof a trace file sorted by PRSDSK Number of physical reads from disk during parse

@echo.
@echo. +———————————————————-
@echo. [ Tkprof trace files sorted by PRSDSK Number of physical reads from disk during parse

@echo. +———————————————————-
@echo.

@echo. Prof’ing
FOR %%F IN (%*) DO tkprof %%F %%F”.tkp” sort=prsdsk
September 12th, 2006, at 9:05 am #