Send to - Desktop (create shortcut)

Hi, if you were to use shortcut.exe (at the end of this)
windows - How to create a shortcut using a batch script? - Super User

in a context menu added e.g. using
Easy Context menu v1.6
to make that easy

you can create a context menu entry that creates a shortcut on the desktop.

The one thing that that doesn't deal with properly is the name of the shortcut.

%1% passed as a parameter in the context menu is the full path of the item clicked.
In order for the name of the shortcut to be simply the name of the item clicked (perhaps less extension), some string processing would be needed on %1%.

Thus you'd need a short script to extract that name, which becomes the appropriate parameter to shortcut.exe.

The same would apply were you to use nircmd by Nir Sofer:
http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/shortcut.html

However using that causes a command box to flash briefly, thus shortcut.exe would be the better option.

I have now done a version of this for you using Autohotkey which uses a small free program shortcut.exe.
The ahk source code is there too.

a. Extract shortcut.exe from the zip file attached to C:
b. Extract shortcut-creator.exe from the zip file attached to your desktop.
c. Download install & run Easy Context Menu
d. Create an entry as shown and enable it (tick) and click Apply so it appears in a file context menu.

Rt click file, click Shortcut-creator and a shortcut should appear on your desktop.

You can of course place shortcut-creator.exe wherever you like and amend the path accordingly in Easy Context Menu.

Popyacap said:

Basically, i want to remove "send to" from the right click menu and in it's place, just have "Desktop (create shortcut)". So, you right click an icon and can immediately make the shortcut to the desktop without sliding the menu out. i never use any of the other shortcuts and i'm pretty sure i figured this out in XP days. This is on Windows 10, latest build that i know of as of writing this on July 29, 2020. Please keep in mind i have been looking for a while on this and i am convinced it's a matter of writing the right thing at the right spot in the registry. Thank you.

Hello Popyacap, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If you like as a workaround, you could use an option in the tutorial below to remove all items in the Send to context menu except Desktop (create shortcut).

Add or Remove Items in Send To context menu in Windows

You're most welcome. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.

The solution I offered works for both folders and files to create a desktop shortcut.

Example- rt click on dummy folder, and the result:

Naturally you can redefine the icon in the context menu, and name it as you wish.