User State Migration Tool (USMT) scanstate deletes two "Send to" right-click mouse options in Windows Vista and later

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Let me fix it myself

1. Mark two the two files read only prior to running scanstate.exe
   • "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink"
   • "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Mail Recipient.MAPIMail"
   
   OR
   
2. After scanstate, copy above two files from default profile path located in "%SystemDrive%\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo"
   
   OR
   
3. After scanstate, recreate the two files by running the following:
   "echo desktop >  "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink""
   "echo mail > "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Mail Recipient.MAPIMail""
   
   OR
   
4. Run a script with following content:
   if not exist "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink" (
   echo Desktop > "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Desktop (create shortcut).DeskLink")
   if not exist "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Mail Recipient.MAPIMail" (
   echo Mail > "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\Mail Recipient.MAPIMail"
   )