This is useful if you want to be able to transfer the files/folders to another computer. Under Miscellaneous, you can specify the file attributes you want to include in the HTML output and specify if you want to use fully qualified paths in the links.

You can filter based on file extension ( File Specification) or by file names. The program is highly configurable, but you can also just choose the folder and click the Build button if you don’t want to do anything else. Once you download the program, simply run the dirhtml.exe file and you’ll get a configuration window like this: You can click on any of the files to open them.

After that, all files within the root folder and within each folder under the root are listed along with their basic file attributes. If you want a fancier output for the directory listing, check out the second program called Snap2HTML that I mention below.Īcross the top are anchors, which are links to all of the folders inside the directory you specified. This is because the program is old and therefore the webpage it creates looks pretty old. You’ll notice the output is a bit plain and kind of old-school looking.

Below is what a directory listing outputted in HTML looks like for the download folder on my computer.

Windows directory list and print