[windows] Copy a file list as text from Windows Explorer

Is there a quick way to copy a list of filenames as text into the clipboard from Windows Explorer?

I can do it from the command prompt with dir > filenames.txt, but I am looking for something along the lines of Ctrl + C -> Ctrl + V.

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If you paste the listing into your word processor instead of Notepad, (since each file name is in quotation marks with the full path name), you can highlight all the stuff you don't want on the first file, then use Find and Replace to replace every occurrence of that with nothing. Same with the ending quote (").

It makes a nice clean list of file names.