re: Question about 'Print Out a Directory Listing'
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bill Rose
(17 messages posted)
When I use this feature, I can't find the filelisting.txt file. Shouldn't it end
up in the accessed folder? Sorry I'm late with this. Been busy.
On Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6:42 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:
>
>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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