You may frequently need to move or copy files to alternative folders in Windows.

To do this, you might move files to different folders by dragging and dropping them.

It would be better to have context menu options for moving and copying files to selected locations.

The Windows 11 desktop

Then you could right-click a file and select aMove to folderorCopy to folderoption.

Press theExplorertaskbar button to view the Windows file manager.

Right-click a file and pick the newMove to folderoption.

The New and Key options

Youll need to selectShow more options>Move to folder in Windows 11.

A small Move Items window will then appear from which you might select a destination folder.

Choose a folder to move the file to in that window.

The value data for the Move to folder key

Then clickMoveto place the file in the selected directory.

Thus, users must manually paste copied items into different folders after selecting that option.

Right-click a file in Explorer, selectShow more options(in Windows 11), and clickCopy to folder.

The Move to folder option

ClickingCopywill paste the item into the selected folder.

you could remove the “Copy/Move to folder"options from the right-click menu by deleting their registry keys.

Open theContextMenuHandlerskey location specified in step three for adding a Move to folder context menu option.

The Move Items window

Right-click theCopy to folderorMove to folderregistry key and selectDelete.

SelectYeswhen prompted to confirm youre sure about erasing that key.

WinBubble adds them to the classic context menu like the manual registry tweak methods.

The Copy to folder key

Uncheck the selectedMove toandCopy tocheckboxes on itsGeneraltab.

ClickApplyto set the new options.

The value data for the Copy to folder key

The Copy to folder option

The Extract all option

The Extract Compressed window

The Copy to option in WinBubble

The Apply button in WinBubble