Clean up "send to menu" Damn it!!!!

[Machine messiah]

Why is it so blasted difficult to add and remove items from XP's "Send
To" menu? Why is there more than 1 copy of this silly folder in XP?

I do not want my cd burner in the "Send To" folder. I do not do packet
writing, I do not burn multisession disks. None of my cd burning apps
are set to do packet writing. So why can't I find the silly short cut MS
put in this folder without asking if I wanted it and delete the darn
thing?
Why can't I change the icon for "my documents" (which I want to rename
to "docs") in this menu? It's only a silly shortcut yet there is no
option to change its icon. For that matter, why can't I change the icons
for the drives I do want in the send to menu, the floppy and removeable
disk?
I want the "Send To" menu to be the same for all accounts of this pc. I
am the only person who uses this machine. The only reason I have set up
multiple account on this machine is in case I trash one I can log on as
another user and delete the trashed account. I won't bore anyone with
the details on the need for that.
I have have been searching this item on Google and I get plenty of hits
on how to add items (which I already know how to do for the current
user) but it seems no one, even the mvps knows how to remove unwanted
drives from this menu. They are not listed in C:\Documents and Settings
\joeschmo\SendTo. Using Start,Run, SendTo simply brings up that folder
as well.
This was so easy in Win98SE: Open C:\Windows\SendTo, and add or remove
anything you wanted. I tweaked this folder constantly.
Ditzy MS programers. Grrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[Frank P]

Try this C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo
looks easy to me.
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Frank P.


scanned with Norton Antivirus 2004
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[Machine messiah]

Try this C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo
looks easy to me.

As I said at great length,

"They are not listed in C:\Documents and Settings
\joeschmo\SendTo. Using Start,Run, SendTo simply brings up that folder
as well. "
Again, short cuts for the drives I wish to delete are NOT listed in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo .

 

[Vanguard]

As I said at great length,

"They are not listed in C:\Documents and Settings
\joeschmo\SendTo. Using Start,Run, SendTo simply brings up that folder
as well. "
Again, short cuts for the drives I wish to delete are NOT listed in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo .

Some items in the user's Send To folder are shortcuts (i.e., a .lnk
file) but some are objects defined in the registry and you'll find it
difficult to replace them if you delete them. It sounds like the
objects which you want to eliminate are drive objects. Explorer isn't
just a simple file manager but will handle special folders differently
and also display objects in a "friendly" way. For example, Explorer
will show the description of an ActiveX control under the
"C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files" folder, like listing "Shockwave
Flash Object" instead of the swflash.inf file, "Creative Software
Update" instead of the CTSUEng.inf and CTSUEng.ocx files, and some are
listed by the class identifier. If you use Explorer to look at the
C:\Windows\Fonts folder, you don't see the .fon and .ttf font files but
instead are presented with font objects. What you see in Explorer isn't
necessarily what is in the selected folder.

As another example that Explorer isn't a simple file manager and will
present file objects by their description depending on their type, like
for ActiveX objects, or based on namespace definitions in the registry,
look at the Control Panel. When you open it the first time, all the
..cpl (control panel applet) files are searched for and listed. However,
there are more items listed in Control Panel then there are .cpl files.
Some of the objects displayed come from their definitions under the
following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace

by their class ID (look under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID to see the
aggregate of the user and global objects and start figuring out what
they are by tracing through their chain in the registry). I did find
the following namespace defined in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace

but I don't think that is what you want (the only object listed under
there, for me, was for Web Folders). I suspect Explorer will add
removable drive types to its Send To context menu. The drive objects
are defined elsewhere, like under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SCSI
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

but if you **** around with those then you can say bye-bye to those
drives. I don't see a CD Burning item listed in my Send To context menu
in Explorer, so I suspect your CD Burning software (Nero, Easy CD, or
whatever) added the shortcut or object to your Send To folder or defined
a namespace to add to Explorer's context menu. More likely the "CD
burner" you see in the Sent To context menu happens to be your physical
removable media drive, and all of those get listed in the Sent To
context menu (A: and B: for floppies, whatever DVD/CD drives you have,
Zip drives, etc.). I suppose you could edit the registry to get rid of
that drive's definition within the registry and lose all access to it
but then it would be easier to open the case and physically yank out the
CD/DVD drive. If you don't like the behavior of Explorer, I'm sure
there are other file managers that you could find through a Google
search or look at some major download sites, like download.com and
tucows.com, that don't handle special folders differently, don't show
descriptions for special file types rather than show the actual files,
and don't let anything in the registry append onto its context menu(s).

I doubt you are ready to go registry hunting and modifying. It seems
you don't even know how user accounts work in Windows XP from your
statement "Why is there more than 1 copy of this silly folder in XP?"
There is a separate SentTo folder under *each* user account's profile
folder - because everyone gets their customized copy, just like everyone
gets their own customized desktop.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

go to start/run, type :

%allusersprofile%/

Is there a sendto there? Or in the "Default User" profile?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Open Search and search for SendTo.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\SendTo

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\SendTo

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Schmo\SendTo

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\SendTo

 

[David Candy]

Removable drives are added on the fly. Disable CD Burning.

 

[StringFellow Hawk]

Or easier yet, clean it up with "TweakUI" or if XP Pro, use "Group Policy".

 

[Terry]

On 11/13/2004 8:43 AM On a whim, Machine messiah pounded out on the keyboard

As I said at great length,

"They are not listed in C:\Documents and Settings
\joeschmo\SendTo. Using Start,Run, SendTo simply brings up that folder
as well. "
Again, short cuts for the drives I wish to delete are NOT listed in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo .

Dunno, all my drive shortcuts displayed are in the SendTo folder. What
do you have showing that isn't in the folder?

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[Kelly]

Haven't read this thread; however,:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

ContextEdit lets you control which items appear on your context menu
(right-click) in Windows Explorer.

Add, Modify, Disable, Delete Context Menu Listings (Line 23)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

[Martin]

"They are not listed in C:\Documents and Settings
\joeschmo\SendTo. Using Start,Run, SendTo simply brings up that folder
as well. "
Again, short cuts for the drives I wish to delete are NOT listed in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\SendTo .

It's a hidden folder thats why you can't see them!

 

[Machine messiah]

I doubt you are ready to go registry hunting and modifying. It seems
you don't even know how user accounts work in Windows XP from your
statement "Why is there more than 1 copy of this silly folder in XP?"
There is a separate SentTo folder under *each* user account's profile
folder - because everyone gets their customized copy, just like everyone
gets their own customized desktop.

Thanks for pointing out the the registry keys.

I've already done some registy tweaking.
1) I turned off the built in Cd-burning by editing the registy.
That removed the burner from the "SendTo menu"
I had to re-register all my cd burning aps, oh well.
2) I had to hack the registry to get XP to remember the folder views.
Seems this bug has been around since XP was released. I bought XP
slipstreamed with service pack 2 and the bug is still there.
http://groups.google.com/groups?
q=xp+folder+views&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

What is the purpose of the folder C:\Documents and Settings
\Administrator\SendTo?

Apparently you didn't see my message where I said I've only been using
this OS since Tuesday, November 9th.

Once I get the hang of restoring this thing from a back up I going to
check out XPlite. http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

 

[Machine messiah]

go to start/run, type :

%allusersprofile%/

Is there a sendto there? Or in the "Default User" profile?

Thanks for the reply.
I've got some of it fixed.

 

[David Candy]

Why wouldn't you do 1 and 2 the correct way.

1. Right click the drive in My Comp - Properties - Recording - Enable CD Recording On This Drive.

2. Start - Folder Options - View - Reset All Folders.

3. It's the send to menu for the administrator.

 

[Machine messiah]

Open Search and search for SendTo.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\SendTo

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\SendTo

C:\Documents and Settings\Joe Schmo\SendTo

C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\SendTo

Thanks.
The worst thing was the cd burner and I've fixed that by disabling the
cd burning built in to XP. I didn't want the mail or zip feature either.
I need notepad there and I've got that fixed too.
Do you know of a link that explains the purpose of these various SendTo
folders?
If I am logged on as an administrator why don't my short cuts go into
the administator's SendTo folder?

 

[Machine messiah]

Removable drives are added on the fly. Disable CD Burning.

Did that.
Thanks.

 

[David Candy]

They do. OIf they aren't you aren't logged on as the administrator.

 

[Machine messiah]

It's a hidden folder thats why you can't see them!

I've enabled show all folders and file extensions.

 

[Machine messiah]

Haven't read this thread; however,:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Customizing Right-Click Menu Options in Windows
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/rclick_custom.html

ContextEdit lets you control which items appear on your context menu
(right-click) in Windows Explorer.

Add, Modify, Disable, Delete Context Menu Listings (Line 23)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Thanks very much!
Your site has helped me fix a couple of things already.

 

[Machine messiah]

On 11/13/2004 8:43 AM On a whim, Machine messiah pounded out on the keyboard


Dunno, all my drive shortcuts displayed are in the SendTo folder. What
do you have showing that isn't in the folder?

I sure would like to have mine there too.
I got rid of the cd burner.
I still have the floppy and zip in the SendTo menu as well as the
despicable "My Documents" but they are not listed C:\Documents and
Settings\your name here\SendTo
Time to hack the registry some more.