[pchelpers] Can't get it to work
- From: PcCowboy <saddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelper <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:42:00 -0500
I received this tip and can not get it to work:
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Would you like to be able to right click any folder in Explorer and
print its contents? You can add this option to the context menu by
following these steps:
1. First, you need to create a batch file called Printdir.bat. Open
Notepad or another text editor and type (or cut and paste) this text:
|@echo off
dir %1 /-p /o:gn > "%temp%\Listing"
start /w notepad /p "%temp%\Listing"
del "%temp%\Listing"
exit|
2. Now, in the Save As dialog box, type "|%windir%\Printdir.bat|"
(without the quotation marks) and click the *Save* button.
3. Click *Start*, *Control Panel*, *Folder Options*.
4. Click the *File Types* tab, and then click *File Folder*.
5. Click the *Advanced* button.
6. Click the *New* button.
7. In the *Action* box, type "|Print Directory Listing|" (without the
quotation marks).
8. In the *Application used to perform action* box, type
"|Printdir.bat|" (without the quotation marks).
9. Click *OK* in all three dialog boxes to close the dialog boxes.
10. You're not quite finished yet! Now you need to edit the Registry,
so open your favorite Registry Editor.
11. Navigate to HKEY CLASSES ROOT\Directory\shell.
12. Click the *Edit * menu and select *Modify*.
13. In the *File Data* box, type "|none|" (without the quotation marks).
14. Click *OK* and close the Registry Editor.
Now when you right click a folder, you'll see the option to Print
Directory Listing. Selecting it will print the contents of the folder.
I followed all the instruction and I get no "Print Directory Listing" in
my rt click menu.
The only thing different from the instructions is the Registry settings.
I go to the HKEY CLASSES ROOT\Directory\shell
But when I click Edit, there is no Modify option.
But in the rt hand panel there is a key called "(Default) Reg_SZ none
When I click it and then the edit there is a modify option.
only there isn't a "File Data" box, but a "Value Data" box, and it
already has "none" in it.
What am I doing wrong?
Pc
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