Comments on: Create a Context Menu Item to Copy a List of Files to the Clipboard in Windows 7 / Vista / XP

By: Pennie

Pennie — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:10:10 +0000

I d/l your registry file, extracted and ran it but it isn’t working on my Vista laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

By: Nas

Nas — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:00:20 +0000

I have been doing this for a while – kind of a cut-down google of my folders and files ….. so excellent tip and writeup.

I have one question:

Is it possible to exclude a specific file and/order folder from the listing? I can’t see a specific switch for this in the dir command (the /a:-d option to exclude directories is not the same).

An example:

\Folder A
\Folder A\File 1
\Folder A\File 2
\Folder B
\Folder B\File 1
\Folder B\File 2
\Folder C
\Folder C\File 1
\Folder C\File 2
\ and so on

I want to exclude all folders/files in Folder B (i.e list all other files and folders)

Thanks.

By: Wayne L Pendley

Wayne L Pendley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:28:06 +0000

The How-To Geek is a god!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:27:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Very useful indeed, and also opens up other possibilities with the use of displaying entries with extended key (for hiding less used context menu hacks).

The dir arguments are numerous. I would suggest that for alternative versions you could rename the context menu entry and have multiple choices E.g Copy List…. and Copy List inc Subdirs… etc.

Anyhow, thanks.

By: GlendaBarron

GlendaBarron — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:53:54 +0000

thanks,

By: Leonard Lee

Leonard Lee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:00:17 +0000

@Rupertsland,

Glad that it can help you.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:48:44 +0000

@Rupertsland

The Extended key makes the item appear only on the shift/right-click menu… I forgot to mention it in the post.

Registry editing can be tricky, that’s why I always provide the download files

By: Rupertsland

Rupertsland — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:43:59 +0000

I feel pretty embarrassed.

I finally got it working. After attempting to edit the registry manually, I decided to simply download the registry hack file and see what happens. Well, everything worked. I noticed an extra Extended key appearing under copylist that I didn’t know that had to be there. At least, that’s what I am thinking.

Anyway, now I can tweak the command further.

Please excuse my earlier whining. Thank you Geek for this great solution.

By: Leonard Lee

Leonard Lee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:29:46 +0000

@Rupertsland,

Did you hold down the shift key while right-clicking in order to see the ‘hidden’ menu?

By: Rupertsland

Rupertsland — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:25:07 +0000

Hello again,

This is all frustrating for me. I still can’t get this wonderful solution to work in Windows XP SP3. Nothing happens. It just doesn’t execute, and I still can’t figure out why. I downloaded the CLIP.EXE file from Microsoft and placed the file in C:\Windows\. I went into RegEdit and followed the instructions exactly. It fails to work.

Geek’s solution is an excellent one. I really want to use it. What could be preventing CLIP.EXE from running on Windows XP?