See expanded Send To menus in Windows Explorer

Now here’s a head-scratcher of a Windows 7 shortcut. The puzzling part is why Microsoft even made it necessary! 

Many of us are familiar, from earlier versions of Windows, with the Send To command in Windows Explorer. In a nutshell: If you right-click on a file in Windows Explorer, one of the options in the menu that pops up, Send To, lets you move the file to certain locations, such as to a zipped folder or onto a local/network drive. 

Simple enough. But in Windows 7 you have the option to see an extended list of Send To destinations by using a shortcut.

In 7, before you right-click on that file, hold down the Shift key. Once the context menu pops up, release Shift and left-click on the Send To menu item as you normally would. You’ll likely see, depending on your PC, that the number of Send To items has increased substantially versus if you hadn’t held down Shift. Here's what we saw, with the expnded Send To menu at left, and the "normal" one at right:
 

 
On our test system, we saw the former “My” folders (Documents, Music, and so on) now appear in the list. The Windows Desktop itself is also given as a possible destination for your file.
Our big beef here is why we need to hold down Shift at all; the extra Send To menu items are handy, but there’s not a whole lot of reason for Microsoft to have required an extra step to access them, that we can see. Well, at least there’s room for improvement in Windows 8.