I'm still an old DOS crony for certain tasks, such as this one. So here's
what I do to have a command prompt with the flick of a finger; well, maybe a
few fingers.
Start, Programs, Accessories.
Cursor down to and right click (application key) on Command promt.
Open properties, assign a shortcut, such as Control-Alt-D.
Make sure you set it to run maximized for best performance.
Use the hotkey to open a command prompt window and do whatever you need to
do. Then type: exit and press enter to close it.
Hth,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[email protected]>
To: "Jeff Weiss" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: How to Copy Just Filenames in Windows Vista
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
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