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How to add notepad shortcut in "Send to" menu on Windows 7

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I found adding notepad shortcut in the "Send to" menu very useful trick as I can send any file to notepad quickly as seen in the screenshot below:

Follow the instructions below to add notepad shortcut in "Send to" menu:

  1. Type shell:sendto in Search in Start menu (or in Start --> Run) and press enter. This will open the following location in a windows explorer window: C:\Users\ <user name> \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
  2. Open C:\Windows in windows explorer and find notepad.exe.
  3. Right click on notepad.exe and drag and drop it to the windows explorer window you opened in the first step. Then choose "Create shortcuts here".
  4. (Optional) Rename it as Notepad.

Now you can right click on any file and choose Notepad from "Send to" to open the file in notepad. 

Of course you can add as many shortcut in Send To menu as you want.

Applies To:

Windows 7, Windows 2008 (not tested yet).

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AMB

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    now blog how to to it for all users on a machine (not just personal profile):-)  

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    Or you could just get Notepad++ which adds an Open in Notepad++ shortcut to every file

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    Oh wait you already have that. Why would you need to send it to Notepad if you have Notepad++ installed??

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    I tried it in the folder "C:UsersDefaultAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo" hoping it would work, but it didn't work. Is there a way to accomplish this for all users at once.

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    Tested on Windows 2008. It works.Thanks for the trick Ahmet. This trick is very handy.

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    @Stephen Wells - Although Notepad++ is great when working with big files, I found Notepad starts faster with small files such as most of the config data. Also - the main purpose of the article is to explain how to add a shortcut in "send to" menu. Maybe I should have chosen a different title for the article :)

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2012
    @arun.passioniway - thanks for trying that on Windows 2008 :)

  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2013
    Thank you.. It worked for me. I've added all I need in the Send To now :) Keep up the good work.

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2013
    BAM!  Works perfectly - thank you!

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2013
    Here's a neat trick I picked up somewhere a few years ago...shell:sendto to open the sendto shortcuts folderthen ... right click... New -> Shortcutpaste the current folder location.. something like : C:UsersYOURUSERNAMEAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo... now you have a sendto shortcut in your sendto folder!  so ... you can sendto sendto!to add notepad just go find notepad.exe  in c:windowsright click -> create shortcutshortcut is now on your desktop... right click on it and sendto -> sendtoboom notepad is added...i find this handy as you can easily add other applications later as all you do is find or create a shortcut and send the shortcut to the sendto shortcuts!

  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2014
    Thanks - great!!

  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2014
    So noone wants to talk about doing this for "All Users" and one time and any future users added to the system.  How can this be done?

  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2014
    Hi, I tried to add Excel 2010 shortcut to the folder and it allowed. But when I right click and navigate to Send to option - it doesn't show this shortcut.I am trying to open a data file (that can be opened in notepad for sure).Thanks

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2015
    @Jim Kennedy & @arun.passioniwayThe only way I know how to add this to all users already on a system, is to manually add it to each users "SendTo" folder.However, you can have this added to all NEW users on a system. Add it to the folder"C:UsersDefaultAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsSendTo"This should work on all versions of Windows, but I have not actually tested it on WIndows 7 or 8!

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2015
    @Fred @ Jim I agree with Fred, there is no appdata folder in the all users folder (at least not in server 2012 R2) so therefore no sendto folder to add anything too. You can only add to default users which is used when  new user folder is created.

  • Anonymous
    April 06, 2016
    This document nailed with what I want. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2017
    I works, thank you!