desk-top file print-out

[geronimo]

I want to print-out the file-names of the ~90 files that
I have on my desk-top; how can I do that?

 

[SpaceGhost]

The quick and dirty way:
1) Open a Command Prompt window
2) Navigate to the directory that contains your login name (ie, D:\Documents
and Settings\Administrator)
3) Navigate to the Desktop directory
4) Type "dir > c:\dir.txt" (minus the quotes)
5) Launch notepad or other ASCII reader/editor and load the file dir.txt in
the root of the C: drive
6) Print file

HTH,
Shane

 

[geronimo]

Please bear with me as I expose my ignorance.
For #1, I presume this means Start->Run.
For #2 and #3, I used the browse button ultimately showing
all the files; but that is as far as I could get because
there is no file-name selected.
What am I not doing right?

 

[Andy]

Do everything through a command windows - DOS like. eg.
cd\docume~1\adminin~1, etc

the ~1 is used for long folder/filenames

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
Please bear with me as I expose my ignorance.
For #1, I presume this means Start->Run.
For #2 and #3, I used the browse button ultimately showing
all the files; but that is as far as I could get because
there is no file-name selected.
What am I not doing right?

 

[Bob I]

For #1 in the Start, Run box type in CMD and then press the enter key.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I want to print-out the file-names of the ~90 files that
I have on my desk-top; how can I do that?

Hi

Put the two following lines in a batch file (text file with .bat file
extension), and double click on it:


dir /b "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\*.*" | sort >"%temp%\desktop.txt"
start notepad.exe "%temp%\desktop.txt"


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torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
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