Where has this Send To entry gone?

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Terry Pinnell

A useful item in my Windows XP Send To menu which I've used for years has
suddenly disappeared. It was called something like 'Clipboard in 8.3
format'. I would right-click the file in an Explore window, choose Send to
Clipboard in 8.3 format and get a string like this on the clipboard:
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C:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/PSPTUT~1/OUTLIN~2.PNG

Can anyone tell me how to restore it please?
 
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Terry said:
A useful item in my Windows XP Send To menu which I've used for
years has suddenly disappeared. It was called something like
'Clipboard in 8.3 format'. I would right-click the file in an Explore
window, choose Send to
C:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/PSPTUT~1/OUTLIN~2.PNG

Can anyone tell me how to restore it please?
Click to expand...

Sounds like Name2clip.

http://www.softsea.com/review/Name2Clip.html
 
Terry Pinnell said:
A useful item in my Windows XP Send To menu which I've used for years has
suddenly disappeared. It was called something like 'Clipboard in 8.3
format'. I would right-click the file in an Explore window, choose Send to
C:/Docs/SUNDRY/Graphics/PSPTUT~1/OUTLIN~2.PNG

Can anyone tell me how to restore it please?
Click to expand...

That's not native to XP (or at least I don't recall ever seeing it before),
but you can download the install script from here:

http://billsway.com/notes_public/

Look in the left-hand column for "Clipboard as 8.3 Path.vbs".
 
SC Tom said:
That's not native to XP (or at least I don't recall ever seeing it before),
but you can download the install script from here:

http://billsway.com/notes_public/

Look in the left-hand column for "Clipboard as 8.3 Path.vbs".
Click to expand...

Thanks both, but happily now sorted.

I recalled after posting that I was given the following sweet and simple
method years ago, by Michael Bednarek in the alt.msdos.batch.nt newsgroup
where I occasionally seek technical advice.

If you press the Ctrl key while selecting Send To > Clipboard as Name, it
will place the file's short name onto the clipboard. Neat eh? And not at
all well known!

That was April 2007. I did initially use another Send To entry. I recall
that I experimented with two. Both were shortcuts to a VBS script, one
written by Bill James, the other by Timo Salmi. When I posted yesterday
I'd forgotten that I'd replaced those with the above much easier and
faster method.

And, to explain my apparent 'loss', I use the Ctrl key method as part of a
macro of my own (basically to add the prefix 'file//', to get a local file
format onto the clipboard). *That* macro had somehow got broken!

Hopefully, with the few posts I've just made here and on a couple of
forums, this very useful undocumented feature will become more widely
used.
 
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