Turn off "Copy To" dialog!

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Ed

I right-click on a file to Open, and suddenly get a pop-up asking me where I
want to copy the file to! Can I turn this off?

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

See this to fix it...

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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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
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