Many years ago, in my regular 9-5, the need arose for several hundred documents to be updated by a team of three people and these updates needed to be recorded to ensure that none were missed and there was no duplication of effort. I realised that Windows did not provide a facility to list files, making the creation of the progress log almost a project in itself. FileLister was born at this point. If you work with files then you need FileLister on your PC to streamline your processes.

Of greater day to day use for personal users is the name changing functionality. You'll note from the links bar at the top of my page that I take a lot of photos and this is an example of where the name changing functionality really comes into it's own. Imagine you're a wedding photographer and you're sat home preparing your clients photograph disc. You've got 800 photos on your memory card and you've whittled these down to the 120 that will be presented, but they're all named by default and are not sequential. DSCN_0745.jpg, DSCN_0764.jpg etc. It looks unprofessional, so you want to change the filenames to John and Janes Wedding 001.jpg, John and Janes Wedding 002.jpg etc. How tedious is that job in Windows explorer, amending one at a time? With FileLister you can extract the list of files to a spreadsheet in seconds, spend another 30 seconds on creating a simple formula and autofilling the spreadsheet with your new filenames and finally 5 seconds clicking the 'change names' menu item. What would have previously taken you maybe 20 minutes to half an hour can now be done in under a minute and that has to be worth the £7.50 cost of FileLister alone!

The full history of the development of FileLister can be read in the user guide.

What are the system requirements?

FileLister will run on Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 and Windows XP. You will also need a ribbon version of Microsoft Excel, i.e. from MS Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 or 365.