Excopy is a little tool to copy the viewed contents of an explorer window in text format to the clipboard. Excopy is a menu extension for the Files and Folders, it displays the option 'Copy view text'.

ExCopy is able to copy from any explorer window - That is not only the files in the current folder, or the Recycle Bin but also the list of Network Connections or the Control Panel - onto the clipboard.

ExCopy is a simple Explorer menu extension. Right-Click a file or folder in the window that you need the text from, and choose 'Copy view text' from the menu. ExCopy will then copy the text from the current window, and show a little dialog where you can adapt settings to copy the text you need.

In List view, Icon view etc, only the list of displayed file names is copied.

In the View Details mode, all columns are copied, delimited by a tab character.

Note: If you have an earlier version active, please uninstall that one first.

The easiest way to try or start using ExCopy is:

• Copy the 3 files in this zip file to a local folder, e.g. C:\Windows. The file names are chosen so that (sorted by name) they appear next to each other.
• Execute 'ExCopy.setup.cmd' (Double-click) and choose 'OK' to Activate. ExCopy will now be loaded by Explorer and you have an extra menu option on all files and folders: 'Copy view text'.

The easiest way to uninstall ExCopy is:

• Execute ExCopy.setup.cmd (Double-click) and choose 'No' to de-activate. ExCopy will not immediately be unloaded by Explorer, but the menu option has disappeared already.
• Before trying to remove Excopy.dll, wait until your next logon session (logoff or reboot). If you're in a hurry, you can terminate Explorer.exe with Task Manager and start it again.

The freeware version copies one extra line: 'Copied by ExCopy' .
Upon request, a registered version is available that does not append this line.