How to Add the Copy To and Move To folder commands to the Windows Explorer context menu in Windows 7

Adding 'Copy To' and 'Move To' folder command in Windows 7 is little tricky.

In Windows XP it was easy.  All you had to do was right-click the standard toolbar, select the Customize command, scroll through the Available Toolbar Buttons list, and select either the Move To or Copy To item.

But in windows 7 its little tricky. We have to resort to regedit for this.

NOTE: Please, create a confirmed backup of the Windows Registry file before you perform any edits.

Step 1: To launch the Registry Editor, click the Start button, type Regedit in the Start Search box, and press [Enter].

When the UAC dialog box appears, respond appropriately. When the Registry Editor appears, navigate to the following folder:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Step 2: When you get there, right-click on the ContextMenuHandlers folder and then select the New | Key command, as shown

Right click the ContextMenuHandlers folder and select the New | Key command.

Step 3: When the new value appears, type in the following code including the brackets:

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

press [Enter] and the Copy To Folder command will be added to the context menu.

Step 4: Right click on the ContextMenuHandlers folder and select the New | Key command again. This time when the new value appears, type in the following code including the brackets:

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Step 5: Press [Enter] and the Move To Folder command will be added to the context menu.

Your ContextMenuHandlers folder should look like this. To complete the operation, close the Registry Editor.

Figure B

Simply adding these two keys to the ContextMenuHandlers folder is all that is needed to add the Copy To Folder and Move To Folder commands to the context menu.

Last Step:  Close the Registry Editor,and you are done. Rebooting after reg editing is always a good idea.