Movies

[shadewalker]

Ugh has a good explanation and good additions with the \b \s but ill try to clarify some more if needed.

Run the cmd.exe program (normaly located at C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe) the WINDOWS + R shortcut is just an easier way to get to this file and launch it.
this will get you a command prompt window.

CD will "change directories" to wherever you tell it to, so you may have something like

cd C:\Users\MyUserName\Movies

the DIR command will list all files and folders in the current directory (the one we navigated to with the CD command). Normal it just prints the directory contents to the screen, but the ">" will direct the output to the file name specified rather than the screen. So when you execute the DIR > MovieList.txt it creates a text file with a listing of all the files in the directory. The \b and \s options just clean up the output to make it more user friendly.