I Have at last found a tool that will do it!!

The Widget Print Directory program will print all of the
contents of a selected directory, sub-directories, and its
contents. You can also print out the contents of just the
root directory of the one that you pick. You will have
ability to print the listing to a file or to a printer. For
best viewing of these list, you should use Word pad or
Word from MicroSoft.

Yes I know you can view the directory's and then print screen,but to me this is a much better option, you can download and check it out here,best of all it is free!!

Go here

Apologies if this has been posted before.

Thanks for your post Bazcaz. I went to the link you provided, and took a look at the program. I haven't had a chance to look at it in detail yet, but I will soon. In the mean time, I thought you might be interested in this post about modifying Windows to print the contents of folders.

Dwight

Thanks for that Dwight,had not seen it before and if this program had not come along would give it a go.....for those of us less technical,just choose the format options then the Drive/Folder,SAVE or PRINT....takes awhile to work out the format options you want...Intially I had too many checked and was getting unnecessary information.

The program you've brought to our attention, Print Directory V3.1, has several distinct advantages over the Windows print folder modification I mentioned in my link above.

In the windows modification, there are no options (at least not without a lot of tweaking). With the "Print Directory" program, you can quickly customize the output with the "Format Options".

Great find! Thanks once again for posting.

Dwight

I tried the Widgetech Print Directory v3.1 program for about 20 minutes. On two occasions, instead of the folder I had selected, the program began indexing the entire drive, and once indexed the folder I had chosen the previous time I'd used the program.

The text formatting was poor, with no white space used; and somewhat erratic, too, in that the descriptive text did not line up with the columns regardless of the font used.

You might want to try PrintFolders 1.4. It's about 1/4 the size; output formats nicely with Courier; all functions are directly available without opening submenus first; a dozen command-line switches make it useful in batch files; and shell integration lets you right-click a folder and click "Use PrintFolders" to open the program with the path set.

I must admit to seldom using any utilities of this type. My usual method is to open the folder with a command prompt, and use

DIR /oe/s/l/v > C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\FileList.txt

to generate the list. The need is so infrequent, however, that I don't even use a batch file to do it (although I seem to recall having posted one here some time ago).