Finding the most recently changed files, in Windows

[micky]

Finding the most recently changed files, in WinXP

Is there any way to find the most recently changed or added files,
when I don't know what folder they are in?

I've wanted this many times in the last 15 years, especially when
hidden things are happening below the surface of the OS.


Right now, the current problem is that I'm working on my first
webpage. Verizon provides 10 megs of space, which is more than enough
for this, but last October or so, they stopped letting
non-extra-paying customers use FTP or any web-creation program but
one, SiteBuilder by Trellix. It's awkward to work with and contorl
of what I do is liimited, but that would be okay if when I went as far
as I can, in 3 or 4 weeks I could take what I've written and copy it
to a GoDaddy page, for example.

But I can't do that unless I can find where the file I'm working on is
stored. Sitebuilder gives access to the HTML file for a small
portion of the webpage, but not for the headers, trailers, or much but
the text basically. Other parts are manipulated indirectly and the
source code can't be seen. I don't want to spend time here if I
won't be able to take what I do with me.

Plus the webpage is going to have a stupid name, like (but not equal
to) http://mysite.verizon.net/vzegtm4b/index.html Who can remember
that?

OTOH, I don't want to move to goDadddy now because I have to pay for a
domain, choose the domain name, and there's a pretty good chance this
page won't be needed or I wont' be able to get past some technical
issues, so it's good to work where it's free.


One more related question. The woman at GoDaddy said I should skip
the first 3 months at 2 dollars a month and just sign up for a year,
and if I wanted to stop using it, they would refund all the unused
months. But I don't find that written on the GoDaddy webpage, and
what else is the purpose of the bargain starting rate, if not to give
people a chance to change their mind withi the first 3 months? Does
she get a commission? Do you think they really refund all;the unused
months?

Thanks a lot

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Finding the most recently changed files, in WinXP

Is there any way to find the most recently changed or added files,
when I don't know what folder they are in?

I've wanted this many times in the last 15 years, especially when
hidden things are happening below the surface of the OS.

Windows Search does that.
Start Menu / Search / Date
Also enable: Advanced / Sys / Hid / Sub

 

[micky]

Windows Search does that.
Start Menu / Search / Date
Also enable: Advanced / Sys / Hid / Sub

Wow. I should have asked 17 years ago!. Or 2000 when I got wi98, or
maybe when I got XP.

Well there are more than 18000** right now that got modified in the
last 4 hours, and I didnt' pay attention to when I last worked on this
file, but all I have to do is modify the file a few seconds after
midnight, and .it will be easy to find. Of course there's a good
chance the file is on the Verizon server, just to make it even harder
for me to take it with me.

Thanks a lot.

**Thousands of the changed files were changed when I was sleeping, and
I thought only email files would get changed. These are all from
Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozzilla\Firefox\Profiles\nnnnnnn.default\Ca\ and have names like
nnnnnM01 where n is a number from 1 to F. I wonder what makes these
Firefox files change when I'm not there.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Wow. I should have asked 17 years ago!. Or 2000 when I got wi98, or
maybe when I got XP.

Well there are more than 18000** right now that got modified in the
last 4 hours, and I didnt' pay attention to when I last worked on this
file, but all I have to do is modify the file a few seconds after
midnight, and .it will be easy to find. Of course there's a good
chance the file is on the Verizon server, just to make it even harder
for me to take it with me.

Thanks a lot.

**Thousands of the changed files were changed when I was sleeping, and
I thought only email files would get changed. These are all from
Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozzilla\Firefox\Profiles\nnnnnnn.default\Ca\ and have names like
nnnnnM01 where n is a number from 1 to F. I wonder what makes these
Firefox files change when I'm not there.

Sounds like you may have active web connections, RSS feeds, or email.
Are those all web cookies and web cache files? Flash cookies / files?
I don't allow any of those things and am not familiar with them.

 

[micky]

BTW, I've gotten more than 10K entries each time I've done this, but
by putting them in time order and checking the time I updated the
webpage I was working on shows no entry for the webpage. That's what
I wanted to know, so you solved that problem for me, even if a new
question has been created (below). The file that is my
webpage-in-progress is probably stored on verizon.net, as part of
their program of secrecy, even for my own webpage. If I were to pay
6 dollars a month, I could still use FTP (despite their saying it's
insecure and passwords can be hacked) and upload the exact webpage I
want, but for free, since October, I can only use their awkward and
limited site builder. .

Sounds like you may have active web connections, RSS feeds, or email.
Are those all web cookies and web cache files? Flash cookies / files?
I don't allow any of those things and am not familiar with them.

The only RSS I might have is in the link bar in Firefox, Recent
Headlines. It sends links to maybe 10 or 20 newsgories and maybe 10
videos a day to a drop down list. I would think it sends them several
at a time, but even if one at a time, that's only 30 transmissions.

I have webpages showing, but I don't know of any I would call active.
They just sit there

I'm not doing anything that runs flash. afaik.

I only get email every 10 minuetes and I accounted for about 10 files
(mailboxes and overhead files) that got changed during the night.

I'll look into this further, later, when I can.

Thanks.