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Is this possible to do in Windows?
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. |
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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. Why not just screen print what you see in Programs and Features ? Or Download and run Belarc Advisor in Admin mode and click on the item called 'Software Licenses' or 'Software Versions and usage' http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html ...then save or print the report automatically generated -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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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: Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 4832-CE9E Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Steve\desktop 2013-06-04 11:28 PM 774 Address Book.lnk 2015-01-29 05:19 PM 2,309 Adobe Reader XI.lnk 2005-12-13 10:29 AM 467 Agent.lnk 2010-12-16 03:41 AM 719 Alliance.lnk 2007-12-27 09:43 PM 1,714 askSam 6.lnk 2013-08-19 03:48 PM 682 Audacity.lnk 2006-10-04 07:47 PM 337 Calendar - new.lnk 2010-07-01 08:16 PM 1,454 Clooz 2.0.lnk 2008-09-05 11:44 AM 1,543 Command Prompt.lnk 2010-03-31 03:25 PM 736 Digsby.lnk 2009-12-31 02:59 PM 564 DOSPRN.lnk 2015-05-12 07:10 AM 1,008 Dropbox.lnk 2009-12-14 10:29 AM 1,582 e-Sword.lnk 2007-07-02 11:14 PM 561 EasyCleaner.lnk 2006-01-16 06:10 PM 352 eCatch.lnk 2012-08-02 02:45 PM 705 Edraw Mind Map.lnk 2014-12-25 01:31 PM 568 Efficient Diary.lnk 2013-04-15 09:32 PM 730 EssentialPIM.lnk 2013-04-12 06:09 PM 625 Evernote.lnk 2014-09-21 05:48 AM 701 Exif Pilot.lnk 2005-12-12 09:22 PM 1,718 Family History Programs.lnk 2009-09-26 12:53 AM 654 FCW.lnk 2012-11-25 07:22 PM 831 HeavyLoad.lnk 2010-08-28 05:34 PM 656 HotDog5.exe.lnk 2007-04-16 08:59 AM 489 IrfanView.lnk 2005-12-30 12:55 PM 601 JotPlus3.exe.lnk 2013-03-01 08:32 AM 257 Legacy 7.5.lnk 2013-11-26 05:33 PM 259 Legacy 8.0.lnk 2015-03-06 07:45 PM 847 LibreOffice 4.4.lnk 2010-11-05 01:27 PM 740 Life Chart 1.8.lnk 2014-10-01 04:20 PM 2,237 Microsoft Access.lnk 2005-12-14 07:03 AM 876 Microsoft Office.lnk 2005-12-13 05:24 PM 323 Microsoft Outlook.lnk 2013-06-04 07:04 AM 1,011 Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express (2).lnk 2013-12-18 04:33 PM 2,519 Mobipocket Reader.lnk 2009-08-28 08:37 AM 559 PAF 4.lnk 2012-08-02 02:31 PM 592 Papel.lnk 2005-12-13 09:52 AM 375 Pegasus Mail.LNK 2013-02-15 12:11 AM 811 Personal Historian 2.lnk 2010-02-06 10:57 AM 651 Picasa 3.lnk 2012-12-07 04:17 PM 645 RJTDateCalc.lnk 2014-12-05 01:38 PM 740 RootsMagic 6 To-Go.lnk 2014-12-05 01:38 PM 720 RootsMagic 6.lnk 2007-09-16 05:56 AM 706 Rough Draft.lnk 2005-12-13 10:13 AM 856 Spreadsheets.lnk 2005-12-26 07:49 AM 360 Treepad.lnk 2009-11-25 07:36 PM 527 VUE.lnk 2009-08-12 06:03 AM 706 WinDirStat.lnk 2011-02-04 10:36 AM 1,475 Windows Explorer.lnk 2005-12-12 09:08 PM 871 Word Processors.lnk 2005-12-13 09:50 AM 820 xplorer2.lnk 2008-12-09 02:19 AM 682 yWriter4.lnk 52 File(s) 44,245 bytes 0 Dir(s) 124,566,134,784 bytes free Is that the kind of thing you want? -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk |
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If you paste the following into Notepad and save as
List.vbs (or other file name with .vbs extension) you can drop a folder onto the VBS file to generate a formatted list as a text file, ready for printing. (If security prevents you dropping a folder you can also double-click the script and enter a path.) The list will include the names of all .lnk files, listed under the name of the respective parent folder. You could also use this script with the Start Menu\Programs folder. There's one catch there, though. Some programs install to AppData\[username]\Start Menu and some install to All Users\Start Menu. I generally move everything to All Users for consistency and also weed out all the junk, like links to websites, that so many programs now put on the Start Menu. If you don't do that then you'll need to process both folders and then clean up your list. * Watch out for wordwrap. Line returns are meaningful in VBScript and the news posting may chop off longer lines. '--- begin script Dim FSO, s2, TS, Arg Arg = WScript.Arguments(0) If Len(Arg) = 0 Then Arg = InputBox("Enter path of folder.", "") If Len(Arg) 3 Then WScript.quit Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") On Error Resume Next GetFolderList Arg Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile("C:\Program List.txt", True) TS.Write s2 TS.Close Set TS = Nothing Set FSO = Nothing MsgBox "List saved to C:\Program List.txt", 64 Sub GetFolderList(sPath) Dim oFol, oFols, oFils, oFil, oFol1, sName On Error Resume Next Set oFol = FSO.GetFolder(sPath) s2 = s2 & oFol.Name & vbCrLf Set oFils = oFol.Files For Each oFil in oFils sName = oFil.name If UCase(Right(sName, 3)) = "LNK" Then sName = Left(sName, (len(sName) - 4)) s2 = s2 & Chr(9) & sName & vbCrLf End If Next Set oFils = Nothing Set oFols = oFol.SubFolders If oFols.count 0 Then For Each oFol1 in oFols GetFolderList(oFol1.Path) Next End If Set oFols = Nothing Set oFol = Nothing End Sub '-- end script |
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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 |
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... 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'd copy the whole shebang to a thumb drive. You'll lose the icons, that's all. |
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On Tue, 12 May 2015 01:48:48 -0400, wrote:
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? You've already gotten several good answers, but let me add my standard answer, which gives you five choices: Here are five ways: 1. Select all the files, press and hold the shift key, then right-click and select Copy as path. This copies the list of file names to the clipboard. Paste the results into any document such as a txt or doc file & print that. 2. Go to a command prompt and issue the command dir [drive:folder] c:\tempfilename (you can use any name and put it in any folder you want) Then open notepad, open tempfilename, and print it from there. 3. Write (for example in Notepad) a 1-line text file: DIR %1 /O LPT1: Save it as "printdir.bat" in the "Send To" folder. Then, to print list of files in any folder, right-click that folder and select Send to | printdir.bat To include subfolders, change the command to DIR %1 /O/S LPT1: 4. Go to http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q321379 and follow the instructions there. 5. Download and use any of the several freeware/shareware utilities that can do this, such as the popular http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp |
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Il giorno Tue 12 May 2015 07:48:48a, ** inviava su alt.windows7.general il
messaggio . Vediamo cosa scrisse: I just want a printed record of all the programs I have installed. Thanks for any insight. I can't really stop appreciating the fact that in 30-more years Windows hasn't yet given the user a simple command like "print directory list" well, we have smooth icons, sliding effects, amazing transparencies, tons of "inutili orpelli" but not a GUI command to get a file list personally I use Total Commander to make tens of thing that windows doesn't do directly, i.e. have a list of whats-inside-a-folder -- /-\ /\/\ /\/\ /-\ /\/\ /\/\ /-\ T /-\ -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- -=- - -=- http://www.bb2002.it ............ [ al lavoro ] ........... |
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On 12 May 2015, Ammammata wrote in
alt.windows7.general: I can't really stop appreciating the fact that in 30-more years Windows hasn't yet given the user a simple command like "print directory list" well, we have smooth icons, sliding effects, amazing transparencies, tons of "inutili orpelli" but not a GUI command to get a file list Seriously, how often does anyone really need to do that? Do other popular OSs have such a thing? I don't see it as anything Microsoft should have wasted their time on. You've always got the command line method, which gives you more flexibility than a GUI method probably would. |
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