On Tue, 12 May 2015 12:19:05 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

On Tue, 12 May 2015 01:48:48 -0400, wrote:

This is what I want to do. First of all, I'm running Windows 7 Professional.

On my desktop I have a folder with my name.

When I open that folder, I have a number of other folders. Some of the names of
the folders are Graphics, Games, Logitech, Maintenance, Science, Utilities, and
so on.

When I open up any one of those folders, there are shortcuts to programs which I
have installed which fit into those categories.

What I want to know is, is it possible in some way to print the contents of one
of the folders, say Games, to get a printout of all the shortcuts in that
folder?

The reason I want to do so is when I get a new machine, I want to be able to go
through the lists and see what I want to install on the new system that I had on
the old. I just want a printed record of all the programs I have installed.

Thanks for any insight.

I tried it with my Windows XP desktop.

Went there with the command prompt, and typed:

dir *.lnk h:\lnk.txt

Got this:

2013-06-04 11:28 PM 774 Address Book.lnk
2015-01-29 05:19 PM 2,309 Adobe Reader XI.lnk

Is that the kind of thing you want?


If you do DIR /b /s *.lnk list.txt
you get just the names of the shortcuts in all the subdirectories
without the extraneous cruft.

e.g.

C:\Desktop\Applications\App1.lnk
C:\Desktop\Applications\App2.lnk
C:\Desktop\Applications\App3.lnk
C:\Desktop\Games\Game1.lnk
C:\Desktop\Games\Game2.lnk
C:\Desktop\Games\Game3.lnk
C:\Desktop\Utilities\Util1.lnk
C:\Desktop\Utilities\Util2.lnk
C:\Desktop\Utilities\Util3.lnk