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cmsort
About this tag
The cmsort tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about sorting file listings in Windows, particularly using the DIR command. Topics include displaying military time and seconds in DIR output for accurate file tracking, especially during virus diagnosis. Users explore command-line options, environment variables like DIRCMD, and alternatives like PowerShell for more precise timestamps. The tag reflects troubleshooting around default sorting behaviors and time formats in Windows 7 and other versions.
Hardware/Software
. existing HP notebook with Win7 32bit
Symptoms
. to diagnose a virus attack, it helps to know, to the second, when a file
was updated. With only a sorted ADMIN DIR output B 4 the restore, it could
only log to the minute. Tho I eventually saw the files it created, seconds...
assembler program
batch file
cmsort
dir command
executable
file monitoring
file sorting
file timestamps
file updates
logging
logs
military time
non-system files
powershell
system files
task scheduler
timekeeping accuracy
virus diagnosis
windows 7
x86