Windows 10: How do I change the 'date created' on folders in Windows 11?

I have brought a lot of folders created on my Windows 10 PC from external storage drives onto my new PC which runs Windows 11 and all now have the same creation date. No surprise there but I thought I'd be able to change this fairly easily but I can't find a simple way of doing it. One suggestion of right clicking and choosing Change Attribute is a non-starter because that option simply isn't there. Any help appreciated, thanks.

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Date modified on all folders in my Documents and Google Drive changed suddenly to today's date

Using Windows 10 Pro, ver. 20H2, System Type 64-bit



Date modified changed suddenly to Today's Date and Time Stamp, Date Created intact, happened on

• All non-hidden folders in my Documents, and Google Drive Sync folders on my computer
  
• including all sub-folders of above also, file dates stayed intact
  
• time stamp varied from 11:01 to 11:05 AM (date 11/30/2021)
  

Facts:

• I have auto-backup of my Documents - always ON to backup to Google Drive on the cloud. However, I have "other folders" on the Google Drive in the cloud that are synced to my Google Drive on my computer - these set of folders are different from my documents. The Date and time stamp on all these "other folders" also changed - interestingly at 11:01 AM, where as the folders of in my Documents changed to 11:04 AM time!
  
• The computer C:\ drive was mapped to another new computer (Windows11). I was using robocopy on Windows 11 new computer to copy files from the mapped drive of the source computer windows 10 Pro (where the dates changed).
  
• Robocopy was not active when dates changed. Robocopy last action was aborted (^C) about 20 minutes before the time stamp change. Robocopy was aborted to avoid endless wait/retry as certain system files would not copy.
  
• I was deleting Documents folder, on destination computer, (to be re-copied later by skipping files in robocopy) This may have been happening around the time when timestamp changed, but not sure.
  
• Did it happen due to Microsoft Windows or Google?
  

Please help, how to easily get back to where I was to begin with correct folder dates.

 

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

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".

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.