Adding MOVE TO and COPY TO Commands to the Context Menu

File management can be unnecessarily tedious. Here's what I mean. In order to copy a file from my flash drive to my hard drive, I need to:

1. Launch My Computer or Windows Explorer
2. Navigate to the flash drive
3. Right click on the desired file.
4. Select Copy from the context menu
5. Navigate to the desired destination
6. Right click
7. Select Paste from the context menu

All of that is fine, but I end up with the destination location in the My Computer or Windows Explorer window. If I want to copy other files from the flash drive to a different destination location, I've first got to navigate back to the flash drive. Not only does this waste time, it interferes with my (limited) attention span.

The good folks at the O'Reilly network provide two nifty registry hacks for adding Move To and Copy To options to the context menu.

www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/winxphacks_chap1/index1.html

This definitely works on my Windows XP system with Service Pack 2 installed. When I choose either of the two new options from the context menu, a dialog box opens up permitting me to browse to the destination location. After the move or copy operation completes, I'm still back where I started in the source location.

Still, it's a registry hack. Accordingly, I created a system restore point before performing it.