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I am using Windows 2000 Professional and I would like to be able to print a
Directory Listing.
Microsoft has an FAQ on this subject (Article ID: 272623 or Q272623)
however, it does not apply to Windows 2000 Professional, I tried and the
instructions do not match the information in Windows 2000 Professional.
Any Suggestions?
George
(e-mail address removed)
 
Yes it applies to Windows 2000. What doesn't match?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I am using Windows 2000 Professional and I would like to be able to print a
| Directory Listing.
| Microsoft has an FAQ on this subject (Article ID: 272623 or Q272623)
| however, it does not apply to Windows 2000 Professional, I tried and the
| instructions do not match the information in Windows 2000 Professional.
| Any Suggestions?
| George
| (e-mail address removed)
 
I found a couple of items.
Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which Windows
Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in each
users Windows Directory?
Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then click
on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
And that is as far as I got.
Please Note the Following:
APPLIES TO
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
• Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
• Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
• Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition

Any suggestions on how to access File Folders?
Thanks
George
(e-mail address removed)
 
:
|I found a couple of items.
| Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which Windows
| Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in each
| users Windows Directory?
* The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is installed.
In your case it should be \winnt by default.


| Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
click
| on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| And that is as far as I got.
* Try logging on as local administrator.

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found about
200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However, clicking
on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New and
it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro on
your computer?
George
 
Sorry to jump in here, but if you only need this feature for occasional use,
Windows 2000 still has TREE.COM available. This is run from a command prompt.
Enter tree /? for parameters. Simplest method is to sent to text file and then
print the text file. Here are some examples of commands:

For tree structure only:
tree %windir% /a >tree.txt

For tree structure and file names:
tree %windir% /a /f >files.text

The text files will be in whatever folder you run the command from.

One drawback: It doesn't seem to know about some system folders

| I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found about
| 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However, clicking
| on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New and
| it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro on
| your computer?
| George
|
|
| "Dave Patrick" wrote:
|
| > "George Lawshe" wrote:
| > |I found a couple of items.
| > | Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which Windows
| > | Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in each
| > | users Windows Directory?
| > * The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is installed.
| > In your case it should be \winnt by default.
| >
| >
| > | Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
| > click
| > | on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| > | And that is as far as I got.
| > * Try logging on as local administrator.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >
| >
 
You need to click on 'Advanced' then 'New'

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found
about
| 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However,
clicking
| on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New
and
| it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro
on
| your computer?
| George
 
I tried the procedure that Patrick recommended and it does indeed work, but the
output only shows the first tier of folders. Here's a change that I made to the
batch file (prin.bat) which outputs all directory levels (first tier and all
subs):

@echo off
tree %1 /a > "%temp%\TreeList"
start /w notepad /p "%temp%\TreeList"
del "%temp%\TreeList"
exit

Hope this helps.

| I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found about
| 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However, clicking
| on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New and
| it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro on
| your computer?
| George
|
|
| "Dave Patrick" wrote:
|
| > "George Lawshe" wrote:
| > |I found a couple of items.
| > | Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which Windows
| > | Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in each
| > | users Windows Directory?
| > * The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is installed.
| > In your case it should be \winnt by default.
| >
| >
| > | Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
| > click
| > | on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| > | And that is as far as I got.
| > * Try logging on as local administrator.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >
| >
 
Sorry to jump in here, but if you only need this feature for occasional use,
Windows 2000 still has TREE.COM available. This is run from a command prompt.
Enter tree /? for parameters. Simplest method is to sent to text file and then
print the text file. Here are some examples of commands:

For tree structure only:
tree %windir% /a >tree.txt

For tree structure and file names:
tree %windir% /a /f >files.text

The text files will be in whatever folder you run the command from.

One drawback: It doesn't seem to know about some system folders

| I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found about
| 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However, clicking
| on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New and
| it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro on
| your computer?
| George
|
|
| "Dave Patrick" wrote:
|
| > "George Lawshe" wrote:
| > |I found a couple of items.
| > | Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which Windows
| > | Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in each
| > | users Windows Directory?
| > * The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is installed.
| > In your case it should be \winnt by default.
| >
| >
| > | Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
| > click
| > | on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| > | And that is as far as I got.
| > * Try logging on as local administrator.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| >
| >
| >
| >
Click to expand...

Another one to remember and quite interesting. I tried
cmd
tree c:\ /F > Myfile.txt

Thanks
Start/run/regedit
(if unsure export registry for safety)
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot
 
I tried Dave's way using Tools - Folder Options - File Types - now before I
can click on Advanced I have to choose a file type. It must list 200 file
types, I have to click on one of those file types so I will know which one
to press the Advanced key on. Which file type do I highlight?
Sorry I am so dense.
George
 
Easy....File Folder is the one you want to change.

You might find it the listing easier if you click on the File Types header bar
to sort the list by name.

| I tried Dave's way using Tools - Folder Options - File Types - now before I
| can click on Advanced I have to choose a file type. It must list 200 file
| types, I have to click on one of those file types so I will know which one
| to press the Advanced key on. Which file type do I highlight?
| Sorry I am so dense.
| George
|
| "Snarky Parker" wrote:
|
| > I tried the procedure that Patrick recommended and it does indeed work, but
the
| > output only shows the first tier of folders. Here's a change that I made to
the
| > batch file (prin.bat) which outputs all directory levels (first tier and all
| > subs):
| >
| > @echo off
| > tree %1 /a > "%temp%\TreeList"
| > start /w notepad /p "%temp%\TreeList"
| > del "%temp%\TreeList"
| > exit
| >
| > Hope this helps.
| >
| > | > | I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| > | tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found
about
| > | 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However,
clicking
| > | on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New
and
| > | it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro
on
| > | your computer?
| > | George
| > |
| > |
| > | "Dave Patrick" wrote:
| > |
| > | > "George Lawshe" wrote:
| > | > |I found a couple of items.
| > | > | Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which
Windows
| > | > | Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in
each
| > | > | users Windows Directory?
| > | > * The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is
installed.
| > | > In your case it should be \winnt by default.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
| > | > click
| > | > | on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| > | > | And that is as far as I got.
| > | > * Try logging on as local administrator.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | >
| > | > Regards,
| > | >
| > | > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > | > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > | > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > | > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
| >
 
Thanks to all of your great help I finally got this to work. For the more
dense people (like me) you may want this step by step procedure.
In Windows Explorer goto to the following:
Tools - Folder Options - File Types - Then you will see the words
"Regiserted File Types', directly under that are two tabs "Extensions" and
"File Types", click on "File Types" and this will sort all the file types
below in alpabetically order. Scroll down until you come to "File Folder",
high light this and click on Advanced, then click on New.
In the Action box, type Print Directory Listing.
In Application used to perform action, click Prin.bat, and then click OK.
Click OK, click Apply, and then click OK.
Open Windows Explorer, right-click the folder that you would like to print a
directory listing of, and then click Print Directory Listing.
Again thanks for all your help.
George
(e-mail address removed)

Snarky Parker said:
Easy....File Folder is the one you want to change.

You might find it the listing easier if you click on the File Types header bar
to sort the list by name.

| I tried Dave's way using Tools - Folder Options - File Types - now before I
| can click on Advanced I have to choose a file type. It must list 200 file
| types, I have to click on one of those file types so I will know which one
| to press the Advanced key on. Which file type do I highlight?
| Sorry I am so dense.
| George
|
| "Snarky Parker" wrote:
|
| > I tried the procedure that Patrick recommended and it does indeed work, but
the
| > output only shows the first tier of folders. Here's a change that I made to
the
| > batch file (prin.bat) which outputs all directory levels (first tier and all
| > subs):
| >
| > @echo off
| > tree %1 /a > "%temp%\TreeList"
| > start /w notepad /p "%temp%\TreeList"
| > del "%temp%\TreeList"
| > exit
| >
| > Hope this helps.
| >
| > | > | I logged on as administrator, then following instructions I clicked on
| > | tools, folder options, file types, then click on file folder. I found
about
| > | 200 file types and final found one that was File Folder. However,
clicking
| > | on it never brought up an Edit tag, It did have a New, I clicked on New
and
| > | it brought up something else, but no Action Box. Do you have Win 2000 Pro
on
| > | your computer?
| > | George
| > |
| > |
| > | "Dave Patrick" wrote:
| > |
| > | > "George Lawshe" wrote:
| > | > |I found a couple of items.
| > | > | Instructions state to save bat file in Windows Directory, which
Windows
| > | > | Directory? I have a Windows Directory for each user, do I save it in
each
| > | > | users Windows Directory?
| > | > * The "windows" directory is always where the operating system is
installed.
| > | > In your case it should be \winnt by default.
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > | Instructions state to click on tools, folder options, file types, then
| > | > click
| > | > | on file folder. I can not find File Folder under File Types.
| > | > | And that is as far as I got.
| > | > * Try logging on as local administrator.
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | >
| > | > Regards,
| > | >
| > | > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| > | > Microsoft Certified Professional
| > | > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| > | > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| > | >
| >
| >
| >
Click to expand...
 
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