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SEND TO ANY FOLDER
The Microsoft PowerToys are a set of not officially
supported applications that modify or add to Windows 9x
in some useful way. One of these is the Send To Any
Folder PowerToy. You can use it to copy or move a file to
any other location on the computer. Once it is installed,
you do this as follows: right-click a file, select Send
To from the context menu, then select Any Folder, and
afterwards choose a destination folder from either the
drop down list or type in a new one (which afterwards
will be added to the drop down list), and finally click
on Copy, or Move, and OK.
Another couple of useful items have been added to the
Send To menu as well: Send to Clipboard as Contents, and
Send to Clipboard as Name. These entries can shorten the
amount of typing you do when handling Shortcuts. For
example, if you right-click on a Shortcut and select Send
To Clipboard as Name, what is copied to the Windows
Clipboard is the path of the actual Shortcut itself. If
you right-click on the Shortcut and then select Send To
Clipboard as Contents, what is copied will be the path of
the target of the Shortcut (what the Shortcut points to.)
Either way, all you need to do next is open your word
processing document or email or whatever, click at the
location where you wish to insert the Clipboard contents,
and then click on Edit/Paste or press the Ctrl-V key.
If you don't have the Microsoft PowerToys installed on
your computer, there are many places it can be gotten
from: the Microsoft web site, and FileWorld.com, and
numerous others. It might also be on your Windows CD if
you have Windows 98.