The easy way to list files in a folder on Windows
Sooner or later you need to list files in a folder for someone who is not at your screen: an inventory of project documents, the tracks on a backup drive, every photo sent to a client. File Explorer can show the folder but has no export button, and the usual workarounds are a dir command redirected to a text file, or Copy as path pasted into Excel. Both give you a wall of full paths and headers you then have to clean up.
File List Exporter skips the cleanup. Pick a folder and every file inside it, subfolders included, becomes a row in a live preview. The preview has the same columns your export will have, so what you see is exactly what you get.
Give the export a name, choose a format and a destination, and click Export. One run makes one file, however many folders the rows came from.
How to print a list of files in a folder
- Click Choose a folder, or Or pick files for a hand-picked selection. Dragging folders onto the window works too.
- Click a column heading in the preview to drop a detail you do not need. Name, Extension, Size (bytes) and Modified are on to begin with.
- In the format menu choose Web page — to send someone.
- Type a name in the box (File list is the default), leave Beside the files or pick another folder, and click Export.
- Open the HTML file in your browser and print it. It is a formatted table with the file count at the top.
Export a file list to Excel
Choose CSV — for a spreadsheet and the export opens in Excel with one file per row and each detail in its own column. It is saved as UTF-8 with the marker Excel looks for, so names with accents, apostrophes or commas arrive intact instead of as garbled symbols. Dates use the sortable 2026-03-14 09:30:00 form, and sizes are in bytes so you can total or filter them.
Prefer tabs? Tab-separated text pastes cleanly into almost any spreadsheet or database tool.
Choose the details: path, folder, dates and type
Eight columns are available: Name, Extension, Size (bytes), Modified, Created, Folder, Full path and Type. Type sorts each file into a plain category such as Images or Documents based on its extension, which makes a mixed folder much easier to scan.
Right-click any row for Show in folder, Copy full path, Copy this row, or Leave this file out, which removes it from the export without touching the file.
