sridatta
An Esoteric Geek
Hello Guys...
How many times have you been browsing through directories in Windows Explorer and wished you could generate a text file or printout listing the files and folders? It seems like a simple request, but it's amazing the option isn't available by default. Many Third party softwares now provide this option. But why not we do it ourselves??
Here is a go....
Now, our aim is to include the option Save folder Listing into our context menu. To create the entry in the context menu it's necessary to make a command that generate folder listing.
Download the attachment and unzip it. Copy the file into c:\windows directory.
Open Windows Explorer and choose Tools --> Folder Options
Navigate to File Types --> Folder --> Advanced--> New, to open the New Action box shown
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Enter the fields as shown below (or in the image above)
Note: The path specified above should be same as the path where the extracted attachment file is copied. Otherwise, windows will throw an exception.
And That's it! Congratulations. You've created a new item on the context menu that's ready to go to work.
Open My Computer and browse to any path, rightclick on the folder and click "Save Folder Listing to File" , choose the path and save it to a filename. you are done..
Alternate ways :
Since, editing the folder options is sometimes risky, you can directly add the following registry keys.
Create the Key Save Folder List in the following path
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\
Create a sub key called Command in the Save Folder List key
Edit the default value to "c:\windows\dir2file.zip" "%1" (as it is, with quotes)
For Advanced users:
We can also create a batch file script for redirecting the output of a dir command into a file. People who want to proceed further, can use this command.
The above command, when executed in the command prompt, will save the Output of DIR Command to filelisting.txt in the current directory. You can also use this batch file to run instead of the dir2file.exe and follow the same method as above, but there are some issues with it. If you succeed doing this, please let me know.
PS: Please Post your comments if any.
For Newbies, I have created an utility which will automate the whole process in a single click. You can download it from here. You can also find the Help file in the Programfiles\Dash\FolderList directory.
*sridatta.110mb.com/software/folderlist.exe
How many times have you been browsing through directories in Windows Explorer and wished you could generate a text file or printout listing the files and folders? It seems like a simple request, but it's amazing the option isn't available by default. Many Third party softwares now provide this option. But why not we do it ourselves??
Here is a go....
Now, our aim is to include the option Save folder Listing into our context menu. To create the entry in the context menu it's necessary to make a command that generate folder listing.
Download the attachment and unzip it. Copy the file into c:\windows directory.
Open Windows Explorer and choose Tools --> Folder Options
Navigate to File Types --> Folder --> Advanced--> New, to open the New Action box shown
*img442.imageshack.us/img442/2207/fol1gd0.jpg
*img440.imageshack.us/img440/4999/fol2yh0.jpg
*img218.imageshack.us/img218/8517/fol3bk4.jpg
Enter the fields as shown below (or in the image above)
Code:
Action : Save Folder Listing to File
Application : C:\windows\dir2file.exeNote: The path specified above should be same as the path where the extracted attachment file is copied. Otherwise, windows will throw an exception.
And That's it! Congratulations. You've created a new item on the context menu that's ready to go to work.
Open My Computer and browse to any path, rightclick on the folder and click "Save Folder Listing to File" , choose the path and save it to a filename. you are done..
Alternate ways :
Since, editing the folder options is sometimes risky, you can directly add the following registry keys.
Create the Key Save Folder List in the following path
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\
Create a sub key called Command in the Save Folder List key
Edit the default value to "c:\windows\dir2file.zip" "%1" (as it is, with quotes)
For Advanced users:
We can also create a batch file script for redirecting the output of a dir command into a file. People who want to proceed further, can use this command.
Code:
dir /a /-p /o:gen >filelisting.txtThe above command, when executed in the command prompt, will save the Output of DIR Command to filelisting.txt in the current directory. You can also use this batch file to run instead of the dir2file.exe and follow the same method as above, but there are some issues with it. If you succeed doing this, please let me know.
PS: Please Post your comments if any.
For Newbies, I have created an utility which will automate the whole process in a single click. You can download it from here. You can also find the Help file in the Programfiles\Dash\FolderList directory.
*sridatta.110mb.com/software/folderlist.exe
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