In the article Enabling “Send To” from Microsoft Office to Mozilla Thunderbird I wrote about restoring the Send To email recipient link from within applications.

Microsoft Windows Vista also seems to lose the right click on a file for “Send To mail recipient”. This is another MAPI problem, and appears to be a problem for many mail applications including Outlook, as well as Thunderbird, so conspiracy theorists won’t be able to blame this on Micro$oft protectionism for their own email programs.

I looked at several solutions for restoring the missing link. The best solution that I found was in the article “Restore missing Mail Recipient entry to the Send To menu in Windows Vista“, where Ramesh Srinivasan suggests 3 approaches.

The simplest approach restored the send to link for me on Windows Vista, and used his simple automated tool at: //www.winhelponline.com/fixes/

I still haven’t worked out why I lost my send to link from my file manager in the first place – I assume it’s just a vagary of Vista following one of the many updates.

When I’m not flying helicopters or writing books I like to relax with various sorts of craft work.  A short time ago I found this fun new craft – Pixelhobby.  It enables you to make your own mosaics, using tiny plastic tiles on a baseplate.  No cutting or glueing is involved, and it’s the sort of thing you can do in odd moments.  You can even use the Pixelhobby software to make mosaics from your own photos.  Anyway, when my supplier decided to give up I bought all her supplies, and…well, you can find out the rest by going to the Pixelhobby website.