Re: W2K 'send to' menu doesn't allow additional apps added.



John wrote:

Well I'm the only user and I was using the admin account for the task. I saw that others had tried the same thing in the 'all users send to folder' copying various shortcuts like MS Word for example that doesn't show up either. There are five 'send to' short cuts that do show and do work, no doubt what the DELL install puts there by default. That is why I asked about a registry key that limits what type or the number of items that can be used. One thing that I did notice is that the send to shortcuts that do work show up as 0 bytes in Windows Explorer where as all the shortcuts that were added and don't work show as 1 byte. Now that seems really odd right there, 0 bytes ??

Fwiw, I just tried this, dragging a shortcut into the regular <Send To> folder under administrator (I'm logged on as administrator) and it shows up on the right click as expected.

The shortcut shows as 1 byte. The other items show as 0 bytes except the floppy which is 1 byte.

I'm using Windows Classic desktop.

..... like I say, fwiw. It does show that what you are doing is correct in principle.
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