re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing'
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6:42 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(1209 messages posted)
Vitsta and Xp lost the ability and Vista has to have a mod to correct this lack of
features. I found the cure in Oreilly press for this.
You need to open Notepad and make a batch file with the following information EXACTLY!
Then save it as Dirlisting.reg Save it using ANSI Text.
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\filelisting]
@="Create File Listing"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\filelisting\command]
@="cmd /c dir \"%L\" /a /-p /o:gen > filelisting.txt"
Double-click the fi le to import it into the Registry, and you’re ready to go.
To remove this entry, you need to delete the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\fi
lelisting key.
Running the Hack
That’s it! Congratulations. You’ve created a new item on the context menu that’s
ready to go to
work. So, now that it’s there, what can you do with it?
Open up Windows Explorer. Navigate to whatever folder you want to use as the basis
for the fi le list,
and right-click to open the context menu. Click the Create File Listing item (see
Figure 3-10), and the
list will be generated and displayed at the bottom of the open Notepad window as
fi lelisting.txt. A file will show up on your desk top with the dir listing you wanted
that can be printed, modified, or what ever you want.
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