Generate a File Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu  Generate a File. Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu. How many times have you been. Windows Explorer and wished you. It seems like such a simple request that its amazing the. You dont believe me Right click on a. Screenshot_540x486.gif' alt='Filelist Accounts' title='Filelist Accounts' />This post explains the syntax of forfiles command with examples. Forfiles is useful for batch processing on files. There isnt, but there is a workaround that doesnt. Heres how to create a context. Step 1 Create A Batch File. To create the entry in the context. The format for the. The name of the. In the example above its. Comfortable Connector for SMTP servers. SmartPOP2Exchange is a powerful connector enabling you to link existing POP3 and IMAP accounts to an MS Exchange Server or any. Once. youve decided on the name, create the file in Notepad and save the. Windows folder as shown below. If you want, just copy. Fig. 0. 1Step 2 Modify The Context Menu. Now that we have the. To do this Open Windows. Explorer, click Tools, then click Folder Options. Click the File Types tab, and then click Folder. Click the Advanced button and then click New to pen the New Action. Fig. 0. 2In the New Action Fig. Once. again, you have a wide latitude in choices but something akin to. Create File Listing will probably be more useful than naming it. Martha Stewart. As you can see in the example above, I ditched. Martha in favor of Create File Listing. Sorry Martha. Browse to the. Application Used to Perform Actions. Click OK and do. the standard Windows dance of Apply and OK again to close all the. Thats it   Congratulations. Youve created a new item on the context menu thats ready to go to. So now thats it there, what can you do with it Open up. Windows Explorer as I did in the example Fig. Fig. 0. 3Navigate to whatever. Click on the Create File Listing. The example below was created. Sample Music folder shown above. Since it is a text file it. Fig. 0. 4Note If for any reason you want to. Create File Listing entry from the context menu it will. This can be accomplished by. HKEYCLASSESROOTFoldershellCreateFileListing. CreateFileListing key in the left. Close regedit and reboot to complete removal. Additional File Modifications. Submitted by TEG Readers. The following tip was sent in. Adding the b switch to the proposed. It eliminates all. Best regards,Geert Pauwels. This is an. excellent idea and very easy to implement. If you are. creating the batch file for the first time just modify. If the. batch file already exists in C Windows, navigate to the. Edit from the context. Save the changes and close the file. The change will. modify the output so it appears as shown below. Fig. 0. 5While its easy enough to. C Windows directory and edit the batch file. The procedure is simple. Create one batch file. Create a second batch. Save both files in. C Windows. Modify the context. Step 2 and Fig. 0. Action line, assigning. I used the names. Create File Listing and Create File Listing. Verbose for this example, assigning the batch file. Create File Listing and the. Create File. Listing Verbose entry. Both entries are now. Fig. 0. 6. Fig. 0. The following. modification was submitted by Antony. Hi,Thanks for. the tip on generating a directory listing from windows. Just. wanted to add that when I run the command as listed, the. I want a listing. I have to open it. This was annoying so I fixed it by doing the. Specifying that the directory listing file always gets. Using. the Start command to open the file with Notepad. Here is. C TempListFiles. C TempListFiles. The following modification was. Max. I have however created a. By adding the line cd 1 to the top. Create a. File List, and then the txt file will be saved inside that. The next modification prevents the. The two. lines are added under the dir command. C Temporary. Locationtextfile. C Temporary. Locationtextfile. Thus, my entire bat file looks like. GEN C Documents and Settingslt your. Local SettingsTempfilelist. How To Install Soft Close Hinges Ikea Kitchens here. C Documents and Settingslt your username Local. SettingsTempfilelist. C Documents and Settingslt your username Local. SettingsTempfilelist. Please remember to use the. The following modification was. Kevin. Ive been trying to figure out how to. I dont want. to print the list, just save it to a disc. Im sending a. CDs that Ive burned. I found your article entitled, Generate. File Listing from a Windows Explorer Context Menu. I did. some minor editing to give me what I needed. I needed a batch file which would create a listing, allow me to cut. I have no. need for a permanent file listing cluttering up my hard drive. Here it is dir a p o gen filelisting. Thanks again for a wonderful site.