I'm having an interesting problem with my send to menu

Hello everyone,

I am new to the forums and I need some help desperately. I am running windows 8 Pro, and I have messed up my ability to right click something and click send to Desktop (create shortcut). I was messing around with the idea of creating a custom send to (create shortcut) option. I did the most stupid thing I could have ever done, I hit windows key + R and typed in shell:sendto this opened a folder containing all the send to shortcuts associated with the right click, send to menu. I right clicked the send to desktop (create shortcut) shortcut (in the folder that poped up when runing shell:sendto) and set it to run with note pad. Now I cannot send items to the desktop as a desktop anymore from the right click - send to menu. How can I set the send to desktop (create shortcut) as a shortcut as it was once before without redoing windows?

See if Brink's tutorial can help you with your issue:

Send To Context Menu - Remove or Restore Default Items - Windows 7 Help Forums

Good luck.

JustATest said:

See if Brink's tutorial can help you with your issue:

Send To Context Menu - Remove or Restore Default Items - Windows 7 Help Forums

Good luck.

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Hey thank you so much for the reply! I tried what he said but it didn't quite work :\ I think what is going on is that windows thinks the .desklink files (the format of the send to desktop file) are associated with a different program than what it was before.

So, if it is a mismanaged file association issue then try this Brink tutorial:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/8486-default-file-associations-restore-windows-8-a.html

Good luck (again).