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re: 'Print Out a Directory Listing' in Win2000
Saturday, January 7, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ben
(1 messages posted)
THANK YOU!!! You did this post two years ago, but I was sitting here going crazy
because I needed a directory listing to paste into Excel. You explaination was great.
I've seen similar solutions but I didn't understand them, and my computer has admin
restrictions. Thanks.
Only things I saw that had differences but didn't effect me were:
>2. Save the file as Dir2Txt.bat in the root of the C:\NTWIN, and then
close Notepad.
>11. Click on OK then on CLOSE again
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On Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 10:26 am, Barrie wrote:
>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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