Open any file with Notepad,Wordpad or any other Text Editor

When you want to open a file in notepad and find there is no direct solution, and going through the whole procedure of opening up notepad first, then selectively opening the file from there takes some serious time if you do it frequently. What if you could open any file with notepad, wordpad or just about any other text editor just by right clicking on it? Yes, you can.

To open any file from Notepad, do this:

• Start Run. (Start->Run)
• Type "sendto".
• The sendto folder will be opened.
• Now create a shortcut of the text editor you want to use.
• For example, to use notepad, simply create a shortcut of notepad in this folder.

Now, you can right click on any file, go to the send to menu, and send the file to notepad to have it opened in notepad. And it works for any kind of file which you have on your system.

Besides notepad, you can also create shortcuts of any other text editor such as Wordpad, Metapad, etc. and have the file opened in them. Just make a new shortcut of them in the sendto folder.

Note: This tweak works in a per user basis in Windows, which means if this is done by user A on a system, it will not work for user B on the same system.