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I have some files on Windows 7, and want to see what time it was that I read it this morning (February 27 morning), but when I right click on the file and choose Properties, I see
Accessed: Yesterday, Feb 26, 2011, 2:12:37PM
so I open the file to read the content again, and then open up the Properties again, and still the Accessed (date) is the same (Feb 26).
Even if I add a column to the folder for "Date Accessed", it still shows Feb 26. But today is Feb 27 and clearly I have "accessed" it... so how can I see the true last accessed date?
"...excessive..." Exceeding what, one wonders. – ChrisJJ – 2014-08-16T01:28:09.723
@太極者無極而生 Well, to be honest, any computer data is/should be seen as really wanky evidence in court. Afterall everything can be altered, if not by a normal user, then by a hacker for sure, especially as you can just access the file from another OS and overwrite the data without Windows beeing in your way. – HopefullyHelpful – 2017-03-14T09:06:57.543
2wow... i guess it should not show it when it is actually inaccurate... that can have a lot of confusion such as father talking to the son "I thought you said you looked at the doc this afternoon? I see the last access time being 5 days ago." Or, "I sentence you to 10 years in prison, as clearly you were lying, you said you were home reading that file, but we checked your computer and the last access date of that file was actually 2 months ago. You were lying in court." – nonopolarity – 2011-02-28T06:25:00.113
7Instead of going through the registry, an easier way would be to type this in an elevated command prompt:
fsutil behavior set DisableLastAccess 0
– paradroid – 2011-06-21T19:34:04.707