Send-To Menu Freeze Fix

[jonna]

I know that the windows registry is a power tool, this being my first
post of a forum EVER is quite surprise because it's the result of not
one single person being able to find this fix.

I've always had this problem with windows xp (every version) - right
click on any file type in any folder and the "Send-To" menu freezes for
several seconds. Microsoft has deemed this as a problem and it's been on
this forum before. No one has the right fix.

Mighte I suggest an option?

Will someone just identify the location of the correct .dll handler and
registry key that defines the "Send-To" option in the right click menu
from the registry itself? I would gladdly delete it/them because I
never use this menu but I am constanly backing up my files, copying,
pasting very very often which is why the hanging of the right click
menu is a problem.

7 seconds of freezing while tryign to get to the "copy" menu under the
"Send-To" menu is quite annoying after you add into account 1, 2, 3,
4... 8, 9... 20 files that have to be processed to different locations
and from different locations. The math: 7, 14, 21, 28... 56, 63... 140
seconds. Very.. Very annoying.

Thanks in advance

 

[Wesley Vogel]

The Copy to and Move to Folder options weren't designed to be on the context
menu. That is why you have a problem.

Here is the fix.

Problem caused by adding Copy To and Move To as context menu entries
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/movetocontext.htm

[[The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to be
on the context menu. They were only meant to be placed in Explorer's
toolbar.]]
What goes wrong when you add "Copy To" to the context menu
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/02/66160.aspx

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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[jonna]

oki, I'm not sure you understand exactly, I wish there was a way t
insert screent shots but heres the deal. Any time that I right-click o
an object that has the option of "copy" "paste" "rename" and all o
this, there is also the "send to" option. You can customize what is pu
in this folder, including removed everything buy the floppy and cd/dv
drives (I'm sure with a little registry modification you can remov
these too, and the send to handler itself from the right-click menu)
That is what I am attempting to do. This happens on all my winx
installation and also many other people I know. I dont' knwo one perso
who doesn't have this problem and microsoft has had somehting to sa
about it, which I mentioned in my above post. I am very new here, so i
there is a way with screen shots I would love you shot this to you.

The send to menu I am talking about is default in windows and canno
just be removed by normal means, that's why I mentioned the registr
(very powerful tool, for people who know how to use it). :

 

[Wesley Vogel]

OK, I misunderstood.

Start | Run | Type: sendto | Click OK |
Delete anything you don't want.

For the rest...

Hide the removable drives from the Send To menu
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/nodrives.htm

See also...

Add or remove entries in the New objects list (ShellNew)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/shellnew.htm

Manage the context-menu entries for folders, drives and Namespace objects
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

Right-click is extremely slow only when Network is enabled
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

Customize Context Menus
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article02-026

Customize the right click context menus
http://www2.technobabble.com.au/article182.html

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

Or here...
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_c.htm

Scroll down to:
Context Menu - Customizing Windows Explorer Context menu
(right click menu in windows explorer)

ShellExView v1.13 - Shell Extensions Manager
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html


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[jonna]

These links look deeper into the problem but I have already cleaned ou
every section of the regitry that has to do with internal context menu
and the "send-to" handler still runs extremely slow when I pass it. I
does it everywhere with every file. I would just like to find out ho
to completely remove the option to "send-to" from the right click men
totaly, I don't need it, I never used it. It's annoying >.< =] Is ther
any possible way of your knowlage to do that? O.o..

Thank you for your patience. =

 

[Wesley Vogel]

{7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837} is the CLSID for the Microsoft SendTo
Service.

Navigate to...
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\
ContextMenuHandlers\Send To

Delete the Value: {7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}

Or to make it easier to re-enable it, type DISABLED in front so the entry
looks like this...

DISABLED{7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}

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[Guest]

Thanks to you, Wesley, and Jonna for taking the time to explain (and provide
a fix for) this frustrating bug, I can finally get past this annoyance that
I, too, have cursed for years!! Thanks y'all!

-Allen Cleveland

{7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837} is the CLSID for the Microsoft SendTo
Service.

Navigate to...
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\
ContextMenuHandlers\Send To

Delete the Value: {7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}

Or to make it easier to re-enable it, type DISABLED in front so the entry
looks like this...

DISABLED{7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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These links look deeper into the problem but I have already cleaned out
every section of the regitry that has to do with internal context menus
and the "send-to" handler still runs extremely slow when I pass it. It
does it everywhere with every file. I would just like to find out how
to completely remove the option to "send-to" from the right click menu
totaly, I don't need it, I never used it. It's annoying >.< =] Is there
any possible way of your knowlage to do that? O.o..

Thank you for your patience. =]