You can easily view time stamp information for items in File Explorer. For example, backup software can make use of a Date Archived time stamp and some office applications make use a Date Completed time stamp to mark a finished document. Other time stamps may be created and used by certain applications. For example, a Date Taken time stamp is recorded when images are captured with a camera.

There are also a number of other times stamps available in Windows that are used on certain file types, or under certain circumstances. Date Accessed: The date-and on NTFS volumes, the time-when the file was last accessed for either reading or writing.Neither does opening the file without making any changes to it. Renaming the file doesn’t change this time stamp. Date Modified: The date and time the file was last written (i.e, when its contents were last modified).Some third party tools do allow you to change this value.

This value is set and Windows itself will not change the value.

Date Created: The date and time when the current instance of the file was created.

Every file on a Windows system has one or more time stamps. The three primary time stamps you’ll work with include:

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