Good stuff for sure. Mike you should have taken a look at the programs page because there is a registry key up there that will do this in very short order in fact, like hit enter twice.
David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com Life is what happens after you have already made other plans. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arianna Calesso" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Desktop not on the Send To menu Oh, Mike! God bless your heart! It worked and I learned something too. That's what I like about these lists--we can teach and we can learn from one another! Many thanks. Arianna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Desktop not on the Send To menu > Hi Arianna, > > Try the steps below. There are a couple of different ways to do what you > are wanting to do . > > How to add the send to or mail to options to the applications key menu. > > Hello Mike, > > The "mail recipient" menu item should have been added by default to the > SendTo menu in XP. You might check to see if it is in the SendTo folder > under "default user" or another account on the system and just copy it > from > the folder under the other user account to the folder in your friend's > user > account. Navigate into "documents and settings" on the local drive and > open > a different user account. Press "S" until you find the SendTo folder and > press enter to open it. Find the "mail recipient" choice if available and > copy it to the clipboard. You can then go back to the user account where > the "mail recipient" menu choice was missing and open it. Open the SendTo > folder and paste the file from the clipboard. > > To add "desktop" and "mail recipient" to the SendTo Menu you can do the > following > > 1. Press Windows key with the letter "R" to bring up the Run dialog box. > 2. Type "Shell:SendTo" (without the quotes) and press the enter key. > 3. Make sure that nothing is selected. Bring up the "file" menu and go > into > the "new" submenu. Use down arrow to the "shortcut" choice and press > enter > key. . > 4. Use tab key to move to the "browse" button and press spacebar. > In the tree structure that appears use up arrow to the top and you should > find "desktop." Use tab key to the "OK button and press enter key. > 5. Use tab key to the "next" button and press enter. > 6. Name the new item with the name you want to have used for the item in > the > SendTo menu, use tab key to move to the "finish" button and press enter > key. > A new shortcut is created in the SendTo folder, and it is displayed on the > Send To menu. > > If you can not copy the "mail recipient" choice from any other user > account > then you can create the menu choice as follows: > > 1. use windows key with the letter "R" to bring up the Run dialog box. > 2. Type in "Shell:SendTo" without the quotes and then press enter key. > 3. Go into the File menu and then into the "new" submenu and use down > arrow > to the "text document" choice. Press enter key on that choice. > 4. Rename the text file to Mail Recipient.MAPIMail > 5. Answer "yes" when you are told that changing a file extension might > make > the file unusable . After renaming the file the .MAPIMail extension > might > be hidden but the "Mail recipient" entry should now be in the SendTo menu. > > Again, if you can find the "mail recipient" file in another user's > "SendTo" > folder, copying and pasting it would probably be faster. > > Take care. > > Brian Lee > [email protected] > > hello; > > When you point to Send To on the File menu, or you right-click a file and > then point to Send To, the Mail Recipient command may be missing. > This behavior can occur if the "Mail Recipient.MAPIMail" file is missing > from the SendTo folder. > > For Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 and Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0, > follow > these steps. > When the .MAPIMail file does not exist in the Disk:/Documents and > Settings/username/SendTo folder, the Mail Recipient command is not shown > when you point > to Send To on the File menu. > > 1. Start-menu, type r=Run, type: > regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\sendmail.dll > and then press OK. > 2. Type the following command to reregister, and then click OK: > > regsvr32 %windir%\system32\sendmail.dll > > hope this helps your friend. > > David Whitehead > hello there; > > give these steps a try; > > This happens if the file Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink is missing > from > the SendTo folder for your user account. recreate the missing file, and > the > corresponding Send To menu entry. > > 1. Click Start, > > 2. r=Run and type: > > regsvr32 sendmail.dll > > 3. Press Enter. > > I hope this helps your friend. > > David Witehead > > Hello Mike, > > Copying the desktop (as shortcut) choice from a different user's SendTo > folder and pasting it in the SendTo folder of the user's account where you > want it should work. Otherwise, I am quite sure that when you use the > regsvr32 sendmail.dll command to register the MAPIMail DLL that the > "desktop > (as shortcut) will also be restored. Also, in my last message I mentioned > about adding "desktop" as a location in the SendTo menu. When you do it > using the method I mentioned, you can name the shortcut "desktop (as > shortcut)" (without the quotes) if you want to. However, when you browse > to the desktop choice in the tree structure you are choosing it as the > destination for the shortcut and when you send a file using that choice in > the SendTo menu, the item will go to the desktop. > > Take care. > > Brian Lee > [email protected] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Arianna Calesso > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:29 AM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] Desktop not on the Send To menu > > > I'm using XP Pro and Jaws 10 and in the send to menu there is no desktop > to > send an icon to. > > How can I put desktop on that menu....or can't one do that? > > Arianna > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
