Restore Missing Send To Compressed Zipped Folder in Send To Menu

Trouble:

It’s quite a common problem that you find some option missing from your Send To menu, one of our reader Kavi reported one problem regarding Send To menu when Compressed Zipped Folder disappeared from Send To Menu

In my PC when I try to send any file to Compress doing right click on it, where the option SEND TO COMPRESSED FOLDER should be visible, that is disappear from the menu.  

This option is for making zipped file of a heavy files or combining a group of files together in a zipped package. This problem can occur in Window XP or Windows Vista

Let’s see how can we solve this problem Windows XP and Windows Vista

Method 1:

Restore Compressed Zipped Folder (Windows XP)

1. Click Start >> Run and type the following command and press enter

rundll32 zipfldr.dll,RegisterSendto

Method 2:

Restore Compressed Zipped Folder ( Windows Vista )

1. Click Start >> Run and type the following command and press enter

shell:sendto

2. Download this zip file from here and extract it your opened Send To menu at below path

C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\SendTo

where,

<user_name> is the username of your windows login account.

That’s it! Now you will see the Compressed Zipped Folder in your Send To menu.

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