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goorambatman
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      11-12-2008
Ok when I was using Windows XP and I wanted to list all files in a folder and
sub folders I would just do a search with the search field blank on that
folder. All files, folders and contents in those sub folders would be
listed. Then I could arrange things how I wanted etc...

Was useful when you had a folder with a heep of folders and all those
folders had a few music files in them. This was a good way of listing all
the music and folders in the one list.

Any way I can't seem to do this little trick in Vista with the new search
feature.

This would be a nice feature to have...

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Dusko Savatovic
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      11-12-2008
I'm not sure you'll like it, but simple command does that. The command is:
dir /o /s


"goorambatman" <> wrote in message
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> Ok when I was using Windows XP and I wanted to list all files in a folder
> and
> sub folders I would just do a search with the search field blank on that
> folder. All files, folders and contents in those sub folders would be
> listed. Then I could arrange things how I wanted etc...
>
> Was useful when you had a folder with a heep of folders and all those
> folders had a few music files in them. This was a good way of listing all
> the music and folders in the one list.
>
> Any way I can't seem to do this little trick in Vista with the new search
> feature.
>
> This would be a nice feature to have...
>
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Retroman
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      11-12-2008
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:42:03 -0800, goorambatman <> wrote:

>Ok when I was using Windows XP and I wanted to list all files in a folder and
>sub folders I would just do a search with the search field blank on that
>folder. All files, folders and contents in those sub folders would be
>listed. Then I could arrange things how I wanted etc...
>
>Was useful when you had a folder with a heep of folders and all those
>folders had a few music files in them. This was a good way of listing all
>the music and folders in the one list.
>
>Any way I can't seem to do this little trick in Vista with the new search
>feature.
>
>This would be a nice feature to have...


The feature already exists: just type an asterix character (*) in the search window.

Doug M. in NJ
 
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