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title: "How to put Dropbox in the Windows context menu. Oh, and what Dropbox is"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/how-to-put-dropbox-in-the-windows-context-menu
published: 2010-05-09
summary: "Dropbox beats juggling files between home and office through Gmail Drive. Its one annoyance on Windows XP has a two-minute fix: a shortcut in the SendTo folder."
---

# How to put Dropbox in the Windows context menu. Oh, and what Dropbox is

Someone on Twitter mentioned [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTY4ODU5ODM5), a wonderful file storage service. Thanks for the tip. I used to use the Gmail Drive app on my home and office computers to move files between them, but Dropbox is a lot more convenient.

In short, Dropbox lets you:

1. Store up to 2 GB of your files on their server for free.

2. Get at them through a special app from your home and work computers, and from anywhere through the web interface.

3. Stop worrying about losing those files if your hard drive "dies".

4. Open the files for editing from any program and not sweat over which version is saved where.

5. Easily share selected files with everyone or with a particular group of people.

The only inconvenience I've found is that the Dropbox app for Windows doesn't yet build itself into the context menu of that same Windows.

Still, that's easy to fix, either by installing a [special plugin](http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/DropBoxPlugin "Dropbox Plugin for Windows") (which I haven't tested, sorry), or like this:

1. Go to **`C:\Documents and Settings\Your_User_Name`** (often it's Admin).

2. Find the "SendTo" folder there.

If you don't see one, look at the top of the window and find the menus "File", "Edit" and so on.

Go to "Tools" → "Folder Options" → "View", select "Show hidden files and folders", then Apply and OK.

3. Now that you should be able to see the **"SendTo" folder, put a shortcut to the "My Dropbox" folder in it**, or to other folders inside Dropbox, the "Public" folder, for example.

4. Voilà! :)

P.S. This is about Windows XP, in case you were wondering.

P.P.S. By the way, if you sign up for Dropbox through the link above, I'll get extra storage space ;)