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One of the most useful items in the Win95 for me was the extension to Send
To in the right click menu to add "Any folder". I don't find this in
PowerToys for XP downloaded today. Does it exist.

I see a Send to Folder but don't know how to add "Any folder" to it.

Stuart
 
"Stuart Grant" said in news:[email protected]:
One of the most useful items in the Win95 for me was the extension to
Send To in the right click menu to add "Any folder". I don't find
this in PowerToys for XP downloaded today. Does it exist.

I see a Send to Folder but don't know how to add "Any folder" to it.

Stuart
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SendTo was part of the powertoys for Windows 2000. Still works under
Windows XP. I've used it under both Windows 2000 and XP. After installing
it, I use its entry in Add/Remove Programs to reconfigure what it will
present (since I don't need its duplicate sendto for Internet e-mail and a
couple others). I mostly use the SendTo -> Any Folder since it keeps a
history so you can quickly move more files without have to navigate or drag.
The other I use is the SendTo -> Clipboard as Name to save the fully
qualified path and filename of a file to include in a doc or post.

I think you get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/wutoys/w95pwrtoysset/default.asp.
I don't use anything except the SendTo power toy from it (the "Explore from
Here" DOS prompt when right-clicking a folder can be added as "Open Command
Prompt Here" using the Windows XP power toys).
 
No need for a powertoy as this function is built in. From any explorer
window simply left click the item to select it and then go to Edit->Copy to
folder or Edit->Move to folder
 
"Harry Ohrn" said in news:%[email protected]:
No need for a powertoy as this function is built in. From any explorer
window simply left click the item to select it and then go to
Edit->Copy to folder or Edit->Move to folder
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Except that you have to navigate through the browser tree to decide where to
copy/move the file. And you have to do the navigation EVERY time. With the
SendTo powertoy, it keeps a history of SEVERAL target paths so you can
quickly copy/move the file to the same place each time or to one of the
places you most recently used. That way, you can use Explorer (which is a
poor file manager, especially since it presents only one pane view of a
folder rather than show multiple paths concurrently), go anywhere you want
to find the file(s), and then copy them using the history already recording
in SendTo -> Folder. If you copy lots of files from various places but all
to the same place, the default is to use the last path you specified (i.e.,
top of the history) to copy/move the file. But you do have a list to choose
from.

Yeah, Explorer's Edit -> Copy/Move To will remember the one path you last
selected. However, if you are moving some files to one target path and some
files to a different target path, you will have to keep navigating through
the browser tree to keep selecting between these two paths. With SendTo's
history, you can quickly select each path from the list without having to do
any lengthy and repeated navigation between commonly used paths.

Explorer's "history" is just the one path you last used. Great is that's
the only place you are going to copy lots of files. My TV's remote has a
Jump button which works the same way: if I switch channels, I can jump to
the last one - and only the prior one - that I viewed. My TV's remote also
provides a history of channels that I selected so I can quickly move between
them without having to reenter their channel number or surf to them. That's
what SendTo's history is like. Rather than giving you a simple "jump to
last used" one-path history, you get up to multiple paths you can quickly
select from and without having to do any navigation when switching between
them. I think SendTo's history will retain up to 10 last-selected paths.

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