Vista Tips – Customizing the Send To Command

Alright, I went to add notepad and wordpad to my Send To folder like I always have for each of the previous operating systems. Thanks to the “simplified” (and admittedly cleaner) users folder and the disappearance of settings, I could not find the way to customize the Send To command. A search in the Vista help produces basically nothing.

I finally found the solution. Just enter in the following in your power search box (Start -> “Start Search”).

%APPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsSendTo

Once the folder is opened just drag shortcuts of any program you would like to appear there into that folder. Not as easy as WindowsXP is it?

About Matt

After getting a degree in Political Science, I decided that I was spending too much time in the lab, so I moved to IT where the pay is better than what a typical Political Science major gets out of College (whatever the restaurant will pay you for being a waiter, or how much a paralegal makes minus law school costs). This blog represents my random thoughts and information I have collected over time that I thought I would share.