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Add Copy To and Move To Contextual Menus in Windows 7

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

As with XP and Vista, Windows 7 doesn’t have the uber-useful (to us at least) Move To and Copy To options in the contextual menu’s by default. To create a Copy To menu item, go to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers location in the registry and create a new Default key with a name of Copy To and a value of {C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}. To create a Move To menu item, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (the same location) and add a new Default key with a name of Move To and a value of {C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}. Now you should have the menu items. Notice that the keys are only different in the 30 at the end of the first string of hex numbers…