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Re: Program to modify file Date and Time in Windows?

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From: Robert AH Prins
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:00
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"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> G'day mates,
>
> From time to time I need to "touch" a group of data files and their
> derivatives so they all end up with the same time stamp.
>
> To date, I've been using the 15-year old FD.EXE from my old version of
> Norton's Utilities.  It works, but it can be a pain to use in deep
> directory structures because you have to either migrate to the
> directory from the DOS prompt, or specify the whole bloody thing on
> the command line. It's clearly one of those cases where something like
> the Windows Explorer interface has the advantage over the DOS CLI.
>
> So, question is, what can you recommend that will do this sort of job
> under Windows 9x and XP?  It's not such a big deal that I want to
> spend anything more than a trivial amount of money on it, at most. :)

In addition to the one mentioned (I have been using Romain Petges 
Attribute Changer for years) there's also a no longer supported shell 
extension called "Properties Plus". Google for "pplus165.exe" to find 
it.

Robert
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Robert AH Prins
prino at prino dot plus dot com 
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Subject: Re: Program to modify file Date and Time in Windows?
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