Windows 10 How to change “New Folder” default name for folders in explorer to current date and time?

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Every time I create new folder in windows explorer I don't need it to be named New Folder. I need current date and time as folder name. For example 20:12 10.12.2016.

And, lets say, I'm too lazy to watch at the time and change folder name manually every time I create folder.

Is there any addon/extension/widget/alternative for windows 10 explorer which handle some folder_created_event or something else and change it's name when folder is created?

Mohd Farhan Bin Ramli

Posted 2016-12-11T11:19:11.020

Reputation: 79

Question was closed 2017-01-06T11:58:40.477

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I would make a new right-click "Context entry". And add a simple command there. Like a BATCH file. 1) Get the current date/time. 2) Create the folder there. I mean, this should be fairly simple, and you would not have to "hack" around. | NEW ENTRY: http://www.howtogeek.com/107965/how-to-add-any-application-shortcut-to-windows-explorers-context-menu/ | BATCH timestamp: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/203090/how-to-get-current-datetime-on-windows-command-line-in-a-suitable-format-for-us || Posting this as a comment, because well, the "modification of New Folder name" is the question.

– Apache – 2016-12-11T12:37:06.200

1That question has not been successfully answered yet. This should not be considered a duplicate. – music2myear – 2017-01-04T18:39:32.430

Answers

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Before you begin you must change the Windows System date format under Regional Settings in Control Panel. You cannot use / in the date format since this is an invalid character for folder names. Change the / to – in the date format. You cannot skip this step. Your date format must contain valid characters for folder names.

  1. Go to registry editor using the regedit command.
  2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell.
  3. Make a new key New Folder.
  4. Inside this key, create another key command.
  5. Type the following value for the key inside it (edit the (Default) item's data): cmd.exe /c md "%1/%%DATE%%"
  6. Save and exit Registry Editor.

Now, to create the folders, instead of clicking New > Folder, instead use the context item New Folder. This runs the command script defined in step 5, which creates a new folder with the current date.

You will now have a folder with default name as the current date instead of "New Folder".

Joseph George William

Posted 2016-12-11T11:19:11.020

Reputation: 21

Nice. I named "New Folder" "New Folder [Date_Time], and set my command to cmd.exe /c md "%1/%%date%%_%%time:~0,2%%.%%time:~3,2%%.%%time:~6,2%%". This gives me time as well. My regional settings have date time set to YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm (and the command relies on this format when doing string data extraction) – CJBS – 2017-07-14T18:16:32.083

For me this only works when right clicking on a directory. the new folder gets created inside that directory. I tried to make it work in the current directory by putting it in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell but this fails. – Gos – 2019-06-18T09:55:00.570

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