Quickly send files to Notepad

Posted Monday, April 10, 2006 12:08 PM by mhodnick

If you're a developer, you probably open up a lot of files in Notepad (or Notepad2, or your favorite text editor). There are a lot of files in Windows that aren't normally associated with Notepad though, so you sometimes have to go through the process of associating the extension with Notepad or selecting Notepad from a list of applications when you want to view a file.

There's a shortcut around this: just add a shortcut to Notepad.exe to your Send To folder. Send To is located under:

c:\documents and settings\[username]\SendTo

Just open the folder and create a shortcut to Notepad. Then all you need to do is right-click on any file and choose Send To -> Notepad.

Comments

# re: Quickly send files to Notepad

Monday, April 10, 2006 2:04 PM by vbullinger

Awesome.  I often find myself cracking open NotePad and dragging a file into an untitled document, which was easy enough.  But this makes it that much easier and I'll be doing this from now on.  Make sure you don't type a space in "SendTo" like I did my first time.  That directory doesn't exist ;)

# re: Quickly send files to Notepad

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:22 AM by mhodnick

Thanks for the correction on the "SendTo" folder name.  I'll correct it in the post.