Create and send a shortcut to a specific folder

I read promovi's solution(above) to send a shortcut of an item(instead of the item itself) using 'Send To'. I followed  the link he provided as I was looking for a solution to this as well. The solution at superuser.com was a complicate one. I then found another simpler solution on another site. Here it is:

1. Select thefolder you want to send a shortcut off to another folder. Make sure the destination folder has a shortcut in the 'Sent To' menu(enter 'shell:sendto' in file explorer address bar to view your 'Send To' locations)

2.Hold down CTRL+SHIFT(continue holding)

3. Right Clickfolder to bring up the explorer context menu. Select 'Sent To'(menu will expand), then Left Clickon the destination folder. Release CTRL+Shift.  

4. It'll will create a shortcut of your folder in the destination folder!!!

Simple to use!!!

I believe you missed the question. What the original poster wants to do is send a shortcut of a file to a folder via the send to menu. What you described does send a file to a folder, but what the poster is looking for is a way to right click a file, go to "Send To > [folder]" and have a shortcut to the file that was right clicked on sent to [folder], not a copy.

I found this post elsewhere. Seems to work for me, although I haven't verified the security of the executable file. Use at your own risk: http://superuser.com/questions/606245/how-to-create-send-to-folder-similar-to-send-to-desktop-shortcut

Here's how to do it:

go to the following directory

C:\Users<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

create a shortcut to the directory you would like to send the items to.

Name it whatever you want.

Click OK. and

that's it.

next time you right click an item, in the send context menu, the shortcut should appear.

And you people call yourselves MVPs.  Seriously?

Hi Dave Trowbridge,

Thank you for using Microsoft Windows Forum.

What you are trying to do will not work, But as a work around you may have to place the original folder in Send to folder and then you need to create a shortcut of the orginal folder to desktop to access them with ease. Here, Work in progress should be placed in SendTo Folder , and a shortcut of it in Desktop . If you have done it vice-versa, it won't work.

Try the following steps and check if this helps :

You’ve seen the SendTo folder in action any time you right-click a file and select the Send To folder from the context menu. What you might be unaware of is that you can customize the items in this menu.

Go ahead, right click a file. You should see something that looks like this:

To get to the SendTo folder, you’ll need to open up an Explorer window, and then paste in the following to the address bar.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

%APPDATA% is an environment variable that actually maps to something like C:\users<username>\AppData\Roaming.

You should now see a bunch of shortcuts:

Let’s say you wanted to add an item to the Send To menu to open files in Notepad. You could just drag a shortcut to Notepad into this folder, or create a new shortcut. Now you can see the new Notepad item in the menu:

This method should work for any application that allows you to open a file by using a command line argument.

Regards,

Azeez Nadeem - Microsoft Support

Doing it your way sends the file not a shortcut.