Woops! My fault. Sure, I did forget that one step. In the run box, you could either type Command, or CMD, then hit Enter, and go from there. Thats what I get from being in a hurry, when writing. Sorry, for the miss! Hope to have everyone back on track, by this clarification. And, thanks for pointing it out!
----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Weiss To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:04 PM Subject: RE: How to Copy Just Filenames in Windows Vista When I tried this in XP I got an error. What I had to do is go to run and type Command To get to the command prompt. Then the rest of your instructions worked fine for me. Jeff Weiss From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:48 AM To: Evan Reese; [email protected] Subject: Re: How to Copy Just Filenames in Windows Vista I am only using XP, so can't guarantee this procedure to work under later versions. Yet, give it a try, and see if it does. Go to your RUN box, by hitting the Win-R combination. Type in the following line, and hit ENTER. This presumes your files are in the directory of "MyFolder", if not, replace the term with your full pathname: DIR MyFolder\*.* >MyFileList.Txt All your filenames will be copied into a text file, named MyFileList.txt. If you want, you could just attach the file to your Email. Or, you could open - and edit -it in your favorite text editor. The above line, will give you all the date/time stamps of your filelist. To avoid this, you could do something like: DIR MyFolder /W >MyFileList.txt Now, only your filenames will be copied. And, just to make sure, you can always change the name of the file, for which you want to store your list. If you, for instance, want it to be saved in a particular folder, and have another name, you could do something like: DIR MyFolder\*.txt /W >C:\MyTextFiles.txt or DIR MyFolder\*.Doc /W >C:\Lists\WordFile.Txt Hope you get the idea, here. ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan Reese To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:55 PM Subject: How to Copy Just Filenames in Windows Vista I'm using Vista Home Premium and WE 7.2. I want to be able to copy just filenames, not the actual files, to the clipboard for pasting into an e-mail or for pasting into a text file. I haven't needed this function before and did a Google search to find out what the keyboard command is to do that. From the searches I did, it seems that I need to download additional software to get this capability. Is this correct? If so, does anyone know what I should get that would be accessible, preferably not too expensive? It seems hard to believe that this isn't built into Windows. Maybe I just didn't search properly. Anyone got any advice? Thanks much. Evan If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
