Printing file names

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Mary

Is there a way to print your file names from My Computer
or somewhere ele? I want a hard copy of file names that
are on my hard drives.

Thanks
 
Mary said:
Is there a way to print your file names from My Computer
or somewhere ele? I want a hard copy of file names that
are on my hard drives.

Thanks
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I'm not aware that Explorer (which is what My Computer is) provides an
easy way to do this.

The easiest way I use is to get all the file names you want to print on
the screen, then ALT-PrtScrn a copy of that screen into the clipboard,
and then put that image into Word, WordPad, or something and print.

Another more sophisticated way is to go to command prompt window
(sometimes called DOS box), and use one of the following commands: dir
or tree. You can find out how to use commands by executing them with a
/? prompt, e.g. "tree /?". They have some options which you might be
interested in.

To get a file listing, for example, for all files in the windows folder,
saving that output to a file to be printed with Notepad:

dir c:\windows > list.txt

If you wish to send direct to the printer, then direct to printer, e.g.

dir c:\windows > lpt1:
or
dir c:\windows > \\server\printername

Dir will print directories and files with details. Tree will give you a
graphical display which might be usefule.
 
Greetings --

From the command prompt (Start > Run > Cmd.exe), simply change to
the desired directory and type "dir > filelist.txt" or "dir > lpt1,"
just as you used to do in DOS. Any of the switches for the DIR
command (type "dir /?") will work with this command, if you wish to
modify the output.

Alternatively:

HOW TO Add a Print Directory Feature for Folders in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321379


Bruce Chambers

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