Comments on: Reference Question of the Week – 4/25/10

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:48:36 +0000

@r e: Thanks for the tip – I’ll read through it and see if I can get that set up on at least out desk computers.

By: r e riker

r e riker — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:44:09 +0000

FWIW, the link to this MS article, “How to add the Print Directory feature for folders in Windows XP, in Windows Vista, or in Windows 7″ — http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379/en-us — was in the paid version of Windows Secrets Newsletter (2010-06-17)

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Thu, 13 May 2010 12:08:17 +0000

@Sharon: That's not actually me, just a Creative Commons photo I found to illustrate my post - I am a far less attractive model.

By: Sharon Adley

Sharon Adley — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:30:51 +0000

Is the light bulb (on your head) LED? It doesn’t look like a normal incandescent.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:25:54 +0000

Very cool! Many’s the time I’ve wanted a quick way to do this.

FYI, for hard copy, you can – obviously – just print the list from the browser window, or if you have Adobe Acrobat on the computer, “print” it to a PDF. The file names will be hyperlinks in the PDF, too.

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:03:43 +0000

@Chrissy: I did not know that. Although, it could get unwieldy with some of our patrons.

@george: Thanks – but unfortunately, we have Start->Run locked down on our public workstations, so patron’s can access it. I’ve done it at the desk for people before, but I like showing people things they can do themselves.

@Kersten: You are welcome – I’m just sad it took me this long to realize it.

By: Kersten

Kersten — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:38:24 +0000

wow – too cool – i totally didn’t know this and i just passed it on to another coworker! cool!

By: george

george — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:26:51 +0000

Start->Run
CMD
G:

dir /b > files.txt

open files.txt on the G drive

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:37:22 +0000

That’s a neat trick, I will keep that in mind. Another way to do this, if you have Textpad (beefier, far more useful version of Notepad), is to open all files up in Textpad (even if they are not text) and use the Copy File Names command.