Date: | February 2, 2004 / year-entry #45 |
Tags: | tipssupport |
Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040202-00/?p=40773 |
Comments: | 17 |
Summary: | Lockergnome tipped people off to this page which talks (among other things) about adding "Copy To" to the context menu. I considered adding this tweak to Tweak UI but ultimately decided against. Here's why: The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to be on the context menu. They were only meant... |
Lockergnome tipped people off to this page which talks (among other things) about adding "Copy To" to the context menu. I considered adding this tweak to Tweak UI but ultimately decided against. Here's why: The "Copy to Folder" and "Move to Folder" options weren't designed to be on the context menu. They were only meant to be placed in Explorer's toolbar. (Right-click a blank space on your toolbar, select Customize, and pick "Move To" or "Copy To" from the list of available buttons.) If you add them to the context menu, you may notice that the "Copy To" and "Move To" dialogs start showing up when you really aren't expecting them, for example, whenever you double-click an attachment in Outlook. The reason is that these two items are a bit too eager. When you ask them, "So do you handle the <X> command?" they say, "Oh yes! That's me!" This is fine in a toolbar, where the only time they're asked "Do you handle the <X> command?" is when the user clicks on the button. But in a context menu, you are asked this much more frequently, and with varying values of X. So when Outlook launches an attachment, the shell loads up the context menu handlers and asks each one, "So do you handle the Open command?" The "Delete" option says, "Nope, sorry." So does "Cut" and "Send to" and "Sharing and Security". But "Copy To" happily says, "Oh yes! That's me!" And then the Copy To dialog shows up when you don't want it. Another example of what happens when you take an object and use it in a situation outside its design parameters. |
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..and the link’s dead.
I still use a number of old Windows 95 PowerToys, such as Send To Extensions. A lot of them actually aren’t terribly useful any more (Mail Recipient CMC, anyone??) but Send To > Clipboard As Name is very helpful, as is Send To > Command Line. I’ve not used Send To > Any Folder for a while.
Another favourite is the Shortcut Target powertoy – right-click a shortcut > Target > Properties gets you the original item’s properties, rather than the shortcut’s. Target > Open Container is another good one.
Any idea why the highlight text colour isn’t used on the Send To menu in XP? For me, using the Blue theme, the text remains black when the item is highlighted – it should be white, according to the colour settings.
One idea for a Shell extension that I’d like to see, is the ability to resize and center a given window to 75%, 50%etc. by clicking on a node in the context menu…Any chance of seeing that soon as a Windows TweakUI or PowerToy setting?
That sounds like a bug in the "copy to" and "move to" options to me.
"Another example of what happens when you take an object and use it in a situation outside its design parameters."
Is that like when I took my TabletPC in the bath?
I still blame the TabletPC.
Robert: Yup, the mismatchedcolors is just plain a bug in the SendTo menu. I’ve asked the SendTo folks to look at it.
Sean: Window size and position is not something a context menu should be messing with. A context menu should operate on the item you clicked, not on some enclosing UI element. (After all, what if the context menu is being invoked programmatically by WinZip? You don’t want it to run around messing with WinZip’s windows, do you?)
Any chance of a context menu item to send files via Bluetooth? The XP SP2 beta has a Wizard fsquirt.exe but it’s too many steps.
Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Communications -> Send Files over Bluetooth -> Next -> Send file -> Next -> Select Device -> Next -> Select File -> Next -> Sending…
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Right-click on file -> Send via bluetooth -> Select Device -> Sending…
Also you seem to need to start the Wizard to be able to recieve files.
How about always allowing file transfers from paired devices and poping up a baloon notification to accept transfers from non-paired devices?
You’ll have to ask the Bluetooth folks. Of course you can always try to write one yourself…
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what about the conext menu that only appliesw to the windows tool bar? the one that has options for "move, maximize, minimize" etc.
That seems like a perfect place for it…
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Marc Orchant passes along a tip from PC Magazine that explains how to edit the registry to add &ldquo;Send&rdquo; and &ldquo;Copy&rdquo; commands to Windows Explorer&nbsp;and concludes with this comment: After performing this tweak, you&rsquo;ll have two new context menu commands: &ldquo;Move to Folder&rdquo; and &ldquo;Copy to Folder&rdquo;. Apparently this stuff…
I just saw this blog post and I thought I would share it with all of you.  It add this to your right-click…
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