In Windows Vista, how can one get a text copy of a folder directory that is not on a hard drive?

Being an old time computer user, anytime I needed a text list of a directory, I would drop into the black Command Prompt, change (CD ) to the directory I wanted and DIR *.* %26gt; file.txt While the Command Prompt is there in Vista and works this way, it does not seem to provide any way to get to Public or Computer and thus get a list.

Using Prnt Scrn provides a graphic image of the screen and eventually we did an OCR on the image and got our list after doing some clean up of errors.

Files does not offer the option of printing the list while in Explorer and of course Copy or Send to sends the files, not the listing.

Is it a case that Microsoft has again decided we don't need functionality and killed it off?In Windows Vista, how can one get a text copy of a folder directory that is not on a hard drive?
There seems to be a great explanation of how to do it here:



http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/146031



I haven't tried it, but looks like it does exactly what you want.



It either prints or outputs the directory to a text file and launches notepad to view it.



Hope it helps, I'll probably stick it on my PC tonight.