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I’ll be down on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville this week showing off Fwd:Vault at the Innovation Expo at Global Finals, the year-end celebration event for Destination ImagiNation. Our expo participation kicks off our new partnership with DI. The event is closed to the public, but if you’re an attendee, I’m looking forward to meeting you!

We have events planned throughout the weekend, and I’ll be chronicling them over on the Fwd:Vault blog. Keep an eye on that Thursday through Saturday for videos, pictures, and writeups.

I’ve been in event planning mode for weeks now, hopefully I can get back to the rest of my life afterward and enjoy the warm weather.

In my off-hours, I tutor a very talented young man on computers, programming, and IT. Our work is usually short exercises, but every now and then we drum up something that might be of use. The download today is one of those unique pieces. It started by simply playing around with installers, which by design create and delete files. In the process we found the hooks for file metadata, and played around with those. It eventually turned into a nice GUI on the file properties window, which we wrapped up in an installer.

FileTime allows you to edit the Created, Modified, and Last Accessed date/time for any file on a Windows system. After running the installer, right click on any file, choose “Properties,” then click the “FileTime” tab.

It’s pretty straightforward from there…

It’s definitely one of those programs that is worthless to the vast majority, but pure gold to the one with a specific need. I honestly have no idea if this would be useful to anyone, but have been doing this way too long to assume that it wouldn’t be useful to someone, somewhere.

FileTime has only been tested on Windows XP. Windows Vista and Windows 7 users are on your own.

Download FileTime installer
Download FileTime DLL (advanced users only)