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File timestamps are crucial for diagnosing issues like virus attacks, as they help track when files were created or modified. In Windows 7, the default DIR command displays time only to the minute, which may lack the precision needed for forensic analysis. Users seeking seconds or milliseconds can turn to PowerShell, which provides timestamps down to milliseconds. This tag covers discussions on displaying and interpreting file timestamps in Windows, including command-line tools like DIR and PowerShell, and the limitations of Explorer's timestamp precision.
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    Windows File Tunneling Can Preserve Deleted File Timestamps

    Windows can give a newly created file the creation timestamp of a file you just deleted when you reuse its name in the same folder. The behavior, called file system tunneling, is a documented compatibility feature of filesystems including NTFS and FAT—not a new Windows update or, by itself...
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    Windows 7 Win7 how to display military time and seconds in a DIR command

    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...
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    • 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
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