

FileListCreator has a portable version, is multi-platform, and free to use (donations are welcomed by the author). It has several different file formats you can save to, including text file, HTML page, comma separated value file (CSV), Excel spreadsheet, and even image files (PNG, JPG, or BMP). What makes FileListCreator a potentially very useful program is the number of available options in specific areas. All tools were tested in Windows 10 and 7.

Here’s a selection of 10 free tools to save or print out content lists of the files inside your folders including to plain text file, an Excel spreadsheet, or an HTML document.

However, messing around with console commands is not to everyone’s liking and Dir is also quite limited. One option is using the Windows command “Dir > File.txt” from the Command Prompt. There are very simple ways of getting a list of files in a folder without external software. It’s quite easy to find out what files are taking up the most drive space but it’s also handy to know what files are stored where. With the size of hard drives today reaching multiple Terabytes, keeping track of all the stored files would be quite useful. Whether you need to do so for yourself or for someone else, there is sometimes a need to create a listing of the contents of a particular directory, set of directories, or a whole drive.
