IS THE OPTION TO SEND A FILE TO THE DESKTOP MISSING?

Rather than browsing through thousands of folders each time you need to locate a certain file, you may instead decide to save a shortcut to the file on your desktop. To do this, you would normally follow these steps:

1. Right-click on the file.

2. Choose Send To.

3. Choose Desktop As Shortcut.

This is a convenient shortcut to the file, but what if the option has disappeared? This can occur if the Desktop As Shortcut.DESKLINK file is missing from the \SendTo folder. You can resolve this problem by simply re-creating the Desktop As Shortcut.DESKLINK file in the correct folder.

Click on Start | Run.

Type explorer.

Select Folder Options (or Options, depending on the version of Windows) from the View menu.

Clear the Hide File Extensions For Known File Types box from the View tab and OK your change.

Navigate to the \windows\sendto folder. From the File menu, select New and then click Text Document.

Type Desktop as Shortcut.DESKLINK.

Press Enter, click Yes, and close Explorer.