Disable the “Send To” context menu
Submitted on March 1st, 2006 by admin
Filed under Resources and Windows
If you’re like me and hate the “Send To” option in the menu when you right click on a file, then this tip is for you. Sometimes I go over the “Send To” menu on accident when I have a lot of things going on, and it just seems to lag out what i’m doing.
Please use this Registry edit at your own risk. You should make a backup copy of your Registry everytime you change registry files.
- Open the Start menu, click on Run, then type regedit and click OK.
- Find the following registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\
Send To. - Find the string value (Default), then right-click Modify and edit the value. This is the value that enables, or disables the “Send To” menu.
- The value already has {7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}, which means the menu is enabled, delete the value, Click OK, and exit the Registry editor.
- Now the value is disabled.
Now the “Send To” menu option is no more. Since I have been using Windows computers I have never found a need to use this option for anything.
March 2nd, 2006 at 3:16 pm
Personally, I just edit the SendTo items to make them useful. I install the SendTo widget from the Windows95 powertoys:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95PwrToysSet/Default.asp
then I just customize it so it’s actually useful. The SendTo “clipboard as name” gets a lot of use for me.
Brian
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March 2nd, 2006 at 3:39 pm
[…] The tip they have is a registry hack and it works well (as long as you don’t mess the registry up in the process). However, I find it a somewhat drastic solution - after all, the Send To context menu can be pretty useful. […]
March 3rd, 2006 at 8:56 am
I love it. This is something which has been bugging me for years!
March 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 pm
It’s unfortunate you haven’t found the excellent use of the Send To menu. By just tweaking it minorly, you can send items to any folder on your computer, or backup drive, or thumb drive or even to a CD in your CD Writer. Disabling this very useful tool because you find it annoying is actually a disservice to windows users. Actually telling them to go into their registry to remove it is really nefarious. Sad.
March 3rd, 2006 at 7:13 pm
“Disabling this very useful tool because you find it annoying is actually a disservice to windows users. Actually telling them to go into their registry to remove it is really nefarious. Sad.”
Read the first sentence of this tip once again and think about it.
March 5th, 2006 at 10:56 am
“It’s unfortunate you haven’t found the excellent use of the Send To menu. By just tweaking it minorly, you can send items to any folder on your computer, or backup drive, or thumb drive or even to a CD in your CD Writer. Disabling this very useful tool because you find it annoying is actually a disservice to windows users. Actually telling them to go into their registry to remove it is really nefarious. Sad.”
You’re an idiot. This article isn’t making anyone do anything they don’t want to, it is just aiding people who might have wanted to get rid of this part of windows. Hardly a “disservice to windows users”. My send to list, like the author’s, hangs for a second or so when I hover it. I never use it, so it is useful to know how to get rid of it.
March 14th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Thanks! I just got irritated by this function for the x*n time, and now it’s gone
March 19th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
This is a useless feature to me, just because you enjoy and use it doesn’t mean everyone else will.. If you are going to through your context menu and accidentally mouse over it it can take like 5 seconds to pop up sometimes even on a fast machine, this is why i hate it. I’m amazed there are sent to zealots out there who want to censor how to remove the option lol foolish
March 26th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I wish to know how delete some places in the “send to” menu
for example “shared folder” “DVD-Rw” “Hard Drive c:” i tryed to delete them from the “send to” folder but these doesn’t exist, I only can see ” Desktop..Zip…Mail.floppy etc.etc.. Thanks…
April 2nd, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Look, the idea of the send to menu item is good. The technical implementation is bad! I’m guessing that when the menu item is hit and starts to be shown, it innitializes, starts to look at what’s in the sendto directory, probably validates the different items and by then I’m barking and raving because thats not what I’m interested in. I want to copy and past a file or what ever…
Thanks for this cool sendto buster post!!
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:27 pm
If your just using the menu to copy and past you would be mutch better off just using CTRL-C CTRL-V witch is mutch mutch faster any way’s.
What might be helpfull, is if there was a way to move the location of the copy and past menu option to the top of the menu : )
but i must agrea that it is very slow and anoying, and it gets even slower after installed programs add there icoons. The only option i use in the send to menu is “email recpient” : )
i’m here to looking for a way to remove al the other options form the menu but i think its a hopeless quest.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:50 pm
i was mistaken : )
you can remove items / programes from send menu
how to remove items from the “Send to” menu
1. open “My Computer”, go to “extra” menu then “folder options”
2. trun on “show hidden items and folders” in the display tab
4. open the folder “C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\SendTo” (98 “C:\windows\SendTo”)
5. remove/move unwanted items (backup items in other folder!?)
there are only 2 items you cant remove from the send to menu
the A: and the cd/dvd drive. But it will speed up : )
hope its use full to somebody, it was for me
enoy
April 4th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Glad to see some of you are making use of my tip, while other dislike it. If you don’t like it, just don’t use it. For the others that are using it, glad this tip helped you out. Maybe i’ll have some more in the near future for you guys.
April 26th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
this is a fantastic tip! i wish i knew of it years ago!
i agree send to is good in theory.
too bad its tied to HD spin up which is totally repugnant.
May 4th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Great tip! I used it to put sendto BACK on my context menu. For those who have a hover problem, just change the menu reaction time to something slower that the speed of light.
May 12th, 2006 at 7:51 am
In my case when using azureus and or limewire (for example)i dont have enough patience to be waiting 3-6 seconds just because i have to go past the “send to” to clik something else, since in the six years of me using windows i have never felt the need of using it, the best thing is to get rid of it…. Thanks for the tip
And for those who do not experiece the delay, maybe its because you just dont stress your pc like I do wich may vary depending on the type and amount of software being run. my laptop is 2.8Ghz intel pentium 4, 512 ram wich is pretty decent, just so you dont attribute the delay to a very slow pc.
May 12th, 2006 at 8:16 am
[…] If you’re like me and you right click a lot on your Windows computer, then you may also dislike scrolling down to “Properties” or whatever and getting stalled on the “Send To” link, as it searches all the places to send your file to.  I don’t use this feature at all, so the 10 second “stupid break” just pisses me off. This page has a registry fix that makes the option go away (at least until the next critical update that restores it…). Cheers. […]
May 16th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Excellent tip, Mike.
Anyone here who’s ‘offended’ by that must be seeking attention in some way, or are just like those people that cause unnecessary trouble on forums.
You offered it specifically to people like me who had the same problem as you, so it’s beyond me why other people feel they need to comment at all.
Shut up!
May 17th, 2006 at 1:38 am
Best site I see. Thanks.
June 7th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Thanks so much, man!
Microsoft needs you!
regards,,,
June 12th, 2006 at 7:34 am
Just what I needed. Like others I get rapidly frustrated when everytime I pull up the context menu and mouse-over this unused (for me) menu item, it pauses whilst it gets it’s list. Thanks.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
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July 14th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Thanks.. Worked!
July 29th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Thanks a lot 4 the information on the send to widget i found it very useful used to a registry hack that used to do the same thing but it kept on messing up again thanks a lot very useful
August 2nd, 2006 at 8:05 am
This “delay” has been bugguing me for years.
I am glad to get rid of it.
But I have one quesiton, Why is it that EVRY PC I have (6 or so) seem to delay on the send-to but it apears as though it doesn’t delay on all PCs?
Is there a setting for it?
I figured it had something to do with re-connecting network drives at log-on that may be causing the delay.
I seem to get a delay on the initial explorer start-up too but don’t know how to get rid of it…..
August 15th, 2006 at 5:55 am
Thx, by the time send to option stopped causing hang i had already chosen the option to send it where i wanted it lol, good riddance to bad rubbish, thx a lot!
August 27th, 2006 at 9:14 am
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September 11th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Cool tip. Thank you so much. My send to menu hangs for sometime before it opens so i though I’d better kill it before it kills me.
Thanks once again.
October 16th, 2006 at 9:55 am
This one has always bugged me, because I have a network with network attached storage (NAS) every time i went over it it would wake The Nas up from its power saving mode, by the time its woken up, announced its presence to the router and the routers routed it I could have made a nice cup of tea !
October 23rd, 2006 at 5:32 am
Thanks for the tip.
Rather than kill it i just renamed the key to ‘Send To Old’ - much harder to damage the registry and I can bring it back easily (for testing software). Same as always from Micronsnot nice idea, terrible implementation.
November 1st, 2006 at 12:22 pm
I use the copy to to and move to patches which allow you to select exactly where you want stuff to go. Send to is irritating and badly written, it slows down work on the computer. I’m glad someone found a way to remove it.
Thank you. As for “a disservice to windows users” I see no gun at my head to use this.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Excelente truco, desde hace tiempo habÃa buscado la forma de desactivar esa función.
Saludos
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Why don’t you just mouse around the “Sent To” and leave it alone… When you bring up the right click menu just move your mouse around (actually off of the menu) and then back onto the item you want to do… it goes around the Send To delay… Also, I agree… someone needs to come up with why this does this… as I use it as well to send shortcuts to the desktop and stuff… my 2 cents anyway…
November 5th, 2006 at 8:36 am
I was also trying to get rid of this stupid context menu, I hated it. If you want to copy anything then you use explorer.
Thanks again, youre the best.
May 14th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
The only thing I miss is “send to desktop as shortcut”
Is it possible to add that to the rightclickmenu without adding the send to subfolder?
July 20th, 2007 at 3:46 am
“Disable the “Send Toâ€? context menu”
This would have done the trick for me. Thank you to Mike Raymond for the guidance.
But I have settled for #12 reethaar’s remarks and put them into very good effect by deleting the programs shown and, learning from it, created a /back_up/ folder that provides the option to Send To anything I want.
Good show.
July 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
first i must agree that allowing a user to have options is always a great tip.
i find it interesting that so many users have this problem. i have been using windows for a long time on many machines (slow and fast) and have never noticed this problem. i use sendTo frequently and have customized it extensively.
if some readers could kindly post the contents of their sendTo folder and indicate if it causes a delay, maybe we could detect a pattern.
July 31st, 2007 at 5:12 pm
After delete “SendTo” (definitely an annnying function),
i think there is possible to create a function called “send to desktop as shortcut”, just like the “open folder in new window”.