Integration with Windows

You can have shortcut icons to WinSCP on your desktop or on the Quick Launch toolbar. The shortcut can display WinSCP’s login dialog or open a stored session directly.

To create a shortcut to WinSCP, simply allow the program to create the icons itself when running the installer, or click the buttons found in the Preferences dialog via the Options/Preferences menu in WinSCP’s user interface if it’s already installed. Shortcuts to stored sessions are easily made from WinSCP’s Login dialog box by selecting the session from the list then selecting the shortcut type by clicking the Shell icon button.

The icons associated with stored session also serve as upload drop targets, allowing files to be automatically uploaded when dragged over the icon and dropped1.

You can have shortcut icons appear in the ‘Send To’ menu, found in the File menu in Windows Explorer and displayed when a file is right-clicked. Shortcuts can either open WinSCP and present the Login dialog or open a stored session directly. In both cases after the session is opened, the selected file(s) are uploaded to the server; WinSCP can then close or go on to display its user interface.

To create a shortcut that displays the Login dialog box, use installer or go to Preferences dialog. Alternatively, a shortcut that automatically opens stored sessions can be created by going to the Stored Sessions tab of the Login dialog box; select the stored session and click the Shell icon button.

To remove the icon, go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo folder (or to C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder on Windows 7) and remove respective shortcut.

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From installer or Preferences dialog you can add WinSCP installation directory to search path (environment variable PATH). This is particularly useful if you use console/scripting mode.

To change the search path, the installer modifies autoexec.bat on Windows 95/98/ME and changes machine (all users) registry keys on Windows NT/2000/XP and newer.

WinSCP installer can install drag&drop shell extension to improve WinSCP capability of downloading files using drag&drop.