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

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From: Dave
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:00
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Phred wrote:
> In article <4n7n3oF94vqaU1@individual.net>, "Robert AH Prins" <prino@onetel.com> wrote:
> 
>>"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
>>news:4n7bfkF921q5U1@individual.net...
>>
>>>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 
> 
> 

Here's a nice simple one that works pretty good for date changing.
Attribute Magic
http://www.attributemagic.com/attributemagic_free.html

Dave
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