How to Add Copy to/ Move to to the Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

Hello Friends!!!! Welcome back to my blog in this tutorial I'll show you how to add a very useful option in your windows Explorer right click menu.

In window or any OS whether it's Linux or MAC OS one of the most frequently task we do is copy or move file or folder from one location to another location. So to accomplice this task we have to go through few steps like first copy the file and then browse the location where you want to copy that file and then paste the file. 

We can shorten this procedure just add the copy to and move to option on our window explorer right click menu. Yes !! you red it correctly this is possible windows allow you to right click on a file, select copy to  folder or move to folder, and the move to box will pop up and let you choose a location to either copy or move the file or folder to.and here is the video in which I have described all the steps  or you can follow the steps give in this article as well...

Okay to do this we need to do some registry hack.

Very Important: Please as usual, back up your registry just in case something go wrong we can revert back. 

so lets do it....

Steps
=====
01. First Open the registry

02. No you need to drill down to the following key

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers


03. Now you need to add a new key here and give it value as mentioned below

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}


04. Change the key name to "Copy to"

05. Now add a new key and name to "Move to"

06. then add the following value as mentioned below

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

07. That's it you don't need to restart or logoff 


And thanks again!!!  to visit my blog again please feel free to leave any comment or contact us if you have any queries.

Share: