Personally, I cannot help but finding it nothing short of amazing that after uncountable versions and updates, Windows is still unable of performing functions that were common practice in the times of MS-DOS. FileName Listing is one of those extremely useful utilities that allows us to recover one of those features – namely, to produce a list all files in a folder (with or without subfolders) and print it, save it as a text file, or even export it to Excel as a CSV file.
In all honesty, producing lists of files under Windows is still possible, provided that you know how to open a DOS window and know how to use the corresponding listing and printing commands. That, in the era of graphical user interfaces, mouses, and context menus, is – to say the least – a complete nuisance. FileName Listing offers you, at no cost at all, that extra functionality from the old days that Microsoft engineers haven’t been able to add to the Windows GUI yet.
The way the program works is extremely simple. You’re offered a number of options to customize your lists by opening the Option Settings dialog. There you can include all subfolders (and their corresponding files, of course), tell the program to include the full path of every file, export the list as a CSV file that you can import in Excel, list only those files that carry a specific extension or filename, exclude specific files or file types (that you can select using wildcards), open a selected file, and define where and under what name you want to your file list to be stored. more
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