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trebor4258
I was a serious hard-core 98SE user for a long time, but have had to warm up
to XP (Home) since I bought a new laptop. I remember having the same
reservations going from DOS to 3.1, from 3.1 to 95, and finally from 95 to
98. So far so good. There are at least a couple of hundred questions
bouncing around in my head having finally gotten a three-box network up and
running with three separate networked printers, but most of them can wait
till later. One, however, has me absolutely baffled.
My "personal" box is a Toshiba laptop that I've setup with an external
Western Digital USB drive. From this machine, the USB drive is "E". I'd
like to know how to force some discipline into the drive lettering, but
again, that can wait until I figure out the issue of the moment.
I have configured XP Home to look and act as much like 98SE as I've been
able to figure out. PowerToys Tweak UI, most of the XP cartoon-like
features disabled, Classic Windows folders, show full path, show all file
types, show extensions, etc.
In trying to re-create some of my old 98 functions, I wanted to add a few
"sendto" functions that would be available both from the desktop and from a
right-click there and everywhere else. When I started playing around with
this, I noticed that the current "SendTo" set of options includes an option
to sendto the "E" drive. It works. If I have a file or folder on the
desktop, I can right-click it, choose the SendTo option, and send it to the
root directory of the "E" drive. Works like a charm and the how/why part is
driving me to drink.
I'm the only user on this machine and XP and all of the applications
software was "pre-installed" by the manufacturer. (Strike 1) I've been
tweaking on it for about 2 weeks and am reasonably happy with how it works
and how the user interface is set up. (Strike 2) As of yet, I don't have a
clue about how XP sorts out "who is who" since I'm the owner, the
administrator, and the de facto default user. This part is annoying since
from looking around at the directory structure it seems like the machine is
set up for 3 or 4 different users even though I'm the only one using it.
Back to the mystery "SendTo". In trying to track this down, I've searched
for every iteration of a SendTo folder on the machine. I found four:
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\SendTo
C:\Documents and Settings\MYUSERNAME\SendTo
C:\Windows\SendTo
C:\Windows\System32\config\System Profile
I believe that I'm set up to "see" everything including hidden folders,
system folders, etc. and these are all of the iterations of a "SendTo"
folder that I can find. While I have a lot of other question about how to
collapse some of the multi-user overhead, what's killing me now is that none
of these have anything in them that relates to the "SendTo" that lets me
send files to the root of "E".
It's there, it works, and I can't figure out why.
Obviously, someone with a problem that's keeping them from working is more
important, but if anyone has a clue as to how to find the link to the
Mystery SendTo, I'd certainly appreciate it. When I find the right folder,
there's some other things that I want to put in it.
TIA-trebor
to XP (Home) since I bought a new laptop. I remember having the same
reservations going from DOS to 3.1, from 3.1 to 95, and finally from 95 to
98. So far so good. There are at least a couple of hundred questions
bouncing around in my head having finally gotten a three-box network up and
running with three separate networked printers, but most of them can wait
till later. One, however, has me absolutely baffled.
My "personal" box is a Toshiba laptop that I've setup with an external
Western Digital USB drive. From this machine, the USB drive is "E". I'd
like to know how to force some discipline into the drive lettering, but
again, that can wait until I figure out the issue of the moment.
I have configured XP Home to look and act as much like 98SE as I've been
able to figure out. PowerToys Tweak UI, most of the XP cartoon-like
features disabled, Classic Windows folders, show full path, show all file
types, show extensions, etc.
In trying to re-create some of my old 98 functions, I wanted to add a few
"sendto" functions that would be available both from the desktop and from a
right-click there and everywhere else. When I started playing around with
this, I noticed that the current "SendTo" set of options includes an option
to sendto the "E" drive. It works. If I have a file or folder on the
desktop, I can right-click it, choose the SendTo option, and send it to the
root directory of the "E" drive. Works like a charm and the how/why part is
driving me to drink.
I'm the only user on this machine and XP and all of the applications
software was "pre-installed" by the manufacturer. (Strike 1) I've been
tweaking on it for about 2 weeks and am reasonably happy with how it works
and how the user interface is set up. (Strike 2) As of yet, I don't have a
clue about how XP sorts out "who is who" since I'm the owner, the
administrator, and the de facto default user. This part is annoying since
from looking around at the directory structure it seems like the machine is
set up for 3 or 4 different users even though I'm the only one using it.
Back to the mystery "SendTo". In trying to track this down, I've searched
for every iteration of a SendTo folder on the machine. I found four:
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\SendTo
C:\Documents and Settings\MYUSERNAME\SendTo
C:\Windows\SendTo
C:\Windows\System32\config\System Profile
I believe that I'm set up to "see" everything including hidden folders,
system folders, etc. and these are all of the iterations of a "SendTo"
folder that I can find. While I have a lot of other question about how to
collapse some of the multi-user overhead, what's killing me now is that none
of these have anything in them that relates to the "SendTo" that lets me
send files to the root of "E".
It's there, it works, and I can't figure out why.
Obviously, someone with a problem that's keeping them from working is more
important, but if anyone has a clue as to how to find the link to the
Mystery SendTo, I'd certainly appreciate it. When I find the right folder,
there's some other things that I want to put in it.
TIA-trebor