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re: 'Print Out a Directory Listing' in Win2000
Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 10:26 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Barrie
(3 messages posted)
I'm using XP, but as far as I know, XP & 2K are basically the same, so the following
should be the same for both OS's. I don't use 2K, so I can't check for differences.
My method is similar to those already posted, but a) doesn't involve editing the
registry and b) creates a text file rather than just outputting to printer. That
way you can alter the file in Notepad before printing if necessary...
1. Open Notepad, and then copy and paste the following three lines of text into it:
@echo off
dir %1 /-p /S /D /o:gn > C:\Temp.txt
exit
2. Save the file as Dir2Txt.bat in the root of the C:\Windows directory, and then
close Notepad.
3. Start Windows Explorer, click Tools, and then click Folder Options.
4. Click the File Types tab, and then scroll down the list of registered file types
until you find the Folder entry in the 'File Types' column. (You may find it easier
to find if you sort the entries alphabetically by clicking on
the grey bar at the top of the 'File Types' column).
5. Click on the Folder entry to highlight it.
6. Click on the Advanced button.
7. Click on the New button.
8. In the Action box, type Directory To Text File.
9. In the 'Application used to perform action' box, click browse and locate the Dir2Txt.bat
you saved in step 2. Then click OK.
10. In the Edit Filetype box, click on the Explore action and then on the Set Default
button. Explore will turn to bold.
11. Click on OK then on OK again.
12. Open Windows Explorer, right-click the folder that you would like to create a
text file of, and you should see a new entry - Directory To Text File. Click on it
and a text file called C:\Temp.txt will be created. This file can be opened with
Notepad and will contain a detailed listing of the directory's contents - including
sub-directories. This can be printed out if required after formatting.
Note: The required filename (C:\Temp.txt) can be changed in the bat file if required
and the existing text file is overwritten each time, so move or rename it if you
want to keep it.
If anything isn't 100% correct for Win2K in this post, perhaps someone can post an
amended version?
BC
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