CTRL-A sounds simple enough to execute if you want to print all the files in a folder, right? Of course, you can also select each file, right-click, and then print them out too. Another way to do this is to select a few files simultaneously, and then print them out accordingly.

However, this doesn’t work this way – every time you right-click a file. The simple reason for that is some files don’t contain data that is printable. Or that have paper-friendly content.

Or there simply might not be a Print command option when you right-click in an empty space within the Windows Explorer folder.

However, there’s another limitation: you can’t print files of different file formats together. For example, you can’t print files that are jpg and docx formats together.

Of course, you can group the files according to type and then print these files out by selecting Group and Type.

As for a way to print a list of all the files, that requires you to use DOS. It’s simpler than you think, actually.

For this, you have to hold down the SHIFT key in the Windows Explorer folder when you right-click the folder and then select “Open command window here”.

What this will do is open a DOS command window. All you have to do is type dir > printit.txt. After this, hit Enter.

You’ll now find a new folder called printit.txt in the Windows Explorer folder. Now you can double-click to load it into Notepad or right-click and select Print.