When you right click on an item (like a file or folder) in Windows Explorer, you are shown a context-menu. One sub-menu of this right-click menu is the Send To which is extremely useful to copy a file over a device or a special folder. All you have to do is right-click over a file and choose Send To and then the device name or folder name shown. But if you want, you can disable this Send To in Windows Vista. Here is how :
Note : Since you are going to make changes to your Windows registry, it is highly advised that you create a backup of the Windows Registry using the free tool ERUNT. In case of a bad Registry edit, you can always restore the Registry from the backup.
- Press the key combination Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog.
- In the Run dialog, type regedit.exe and press the Enter key to run the Windows Registry Editor.
- In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key :
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjectsshellexContextMenuHandlersSend To
- You would find the (Default) value in the right-side pane as shown.
- Double-click on it and change its value to a blank string (leave the text field blank).
- Click OK to save the value. You will see that the Send To has disapeared from the context-menu.
If later you want to enable the Send To again, then you can change the value of the Default in step 5 above to {7BA4C740-9E81-11CF-99D3-00AA004AE837}.
Alternatively, you can also download the Registry entries file disable_sendto_menu.zip. Extract the the contents of the ZIP archive to a folder. Double-click on disable_sendto_menu.reg to disable the Send To menu. Similarly, to enable the Send To menu, use the enable_sendto_menu.reg file.