Re: Set all files on Windows XP to a specified create & access date

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 10/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:32:43 +1000

Did you reboot? 

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<donnadigacomo@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1128971182.796878.167360@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> You can prevent NTFS from having to update the last accessed date/time
>> stamp by setting the following DWord value to 1:
>>
>> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
>> \NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate
> 
> I tried this but it did not seem to prevent the constant changing of
> the last accessed and last modified dates.
> 
> 1. I opened up the registry with Start->Run->regedit
> 2. I navigated to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
> 3. I noted there was no "FileSystem" subkey named
> "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate".
> 4. The only "FileSystem" subkeys were "Win95TruncatedExtensions",
> "Win31FileSystem", & "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation".
> 5. I created a new "FileSystem" subkey named
> "NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate".
> 6. I gave it a hexadecimal REG_DWORD value of "1", aka "0x00000001
> (1)".
> 7. I then opened and closed a test text file.
> 8. I also modified a test text file.
> 9. BOTH showed the file-accessed & last-modified dates to be changed.
> 10. What did I do wrong.
>

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