The Send To command is one of the little gems in Windows 98’s right-click menu that doesn’t really seem very useful at first glance. But once you realize that you can customize it, suddenly it gets a lot more interesting. Most people know that if you want to copy a file or folder to a floppy disk, you can use the Send To command. First make sure you have a floppy disk in the drive (yes, it’s a drag to forget that!). In Windows Explorer, right-click the filename you want to copy. When the pop-up menu appears, choose Send To and select your floppy drive from the list.
Send to is great if you need to move files around. The default pop-up options generally let you send a file to a floppy drive or to the desktop as a shortcut, and a few more depending on the software you have installed. However, just as software programs can add entries to the Send to menu, so can you.
You can add any destination to the Send To command by dragging and dropping a shortcut into the Send To folder (which on a single-user machine, lurks in your Windows folder, i.e. C:WindowsSend To). For example, I do a lot of graphics design work, so I have a lot of graphic files on my computer. Most graphic files are associated with the software that I use to create them, such as Photoshop. So if I double click a GIF file, Photoshop opens. But Photoshop is slow and sometimes I just want to see what the picture looks like without going through the hassle of opening Photoshop. So, I put an entry for Internet Explorer on my Send To.
All I had to do was click and drag my shortcut for IE into the WindowsSend To folder in Windows Explorer. Now, if I want to check out a simple little graphic, I just right-click it and choose Send To|Internet Explorer.
If you think about how you use your computer, you can probably find lots of things to put in the Send To folder to help make your computing go more quickly. For example, suppose you like to put all the e-mail attachments you send into a particular location, such as C:upload. Drag a shortcut for that folder into the Send To folder and voila, now you can send a copy of the file into that folder directly without dragging icons around. Nifty!