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

John <John@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gary Smith wrote:
So far as I know, there is absolutely no difference Win 2K and the other
two versions when it comes to the SendTo function. The only thing that
occurs to me is that perhaps the users don't have the necessary
persmission to access those shortcuts. If the shortcuts have the hidden
attribute they won't show up in the menu, but I expect that you've already
checked that.

[snip]

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 ??

I checked my system, and there was no SendTo folder in the All Users'
profile. Is that where you're trying to put shortcuts? I created a
SendTo folder under All Users and put a couple of ordinary shortcuts in
there, and sure enough, they do not show up in the context menu. If I put
the same shortcuts in SendTo under my profile, they show up just fine. It
appears that unike Start Menu, the All Users' SendTo isn't merged with the
individual user's.

I believe that the 0-byte entries are related to special registry entries
that create a sort of virtual shortcut. Mine were al created by
installers of some sort. The ones I created myself all have the extension
..lnk (which you can't see in Explorer) and are list as 1 or 2K in size.

This PC has active desk top turned on and I am wondering if that has
anything to do with the problem.

That would be a whole 'nother ball game. I've never used Active Directory
and have no expereince with it. It might be interesting to turn it off
temporarily to see what happens.

The comp's OS has a restore partition and no CDs. You would think that
people purchasing work stations for a business would have the sense to
purchase a full W2K install CD along with the comp to get the real deal
rather than DELL's bungled idea of an install.

The clueless are everywhere.

I am having other issues with this comp as well. One really annoying
thing is that when a document is printed the printer dialog window
doesn't pop to the top of the stack of windows but instead buries itself
under *all* the other windows. So they need minimized just to click the
OK button. I doubt that its a printer driver issue as it doesn't matter
which printer on the network is used, 10 printers that I have access to
and there are only 2 pairs of the same model - hehe. Having to tell
Windows twice to print something is annoying enough but when the second
prompt hides itself ... grrr ...

That sounds really painful. I find myself printing a lot more stuff every
since my work machine was "upgraded" because it's just to uncomfortable to
read very much on the crappy Dell monitors they bought.

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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio
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