XP Date Accessed Property Unreliable

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Hello everyone, the date-accessed property (column) in windows xp
explorer (not internet explorer) is unreliable. I have a test case
built up, with one small html file called thanks.htm, and one small gif
file called phone.gif.

------------------- thanks.htm ---------------------------

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0">
<title>Thanks</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<p><b>
Thank you for filling out this form.<br>
</b></p>

<p>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>[</b></font>
<a href="phone.htm"><b>Back</b><img src="phone.gif" width="40"
height="40" border="0"></a>
<font color="#0000FF">]</font>
</p>

</body>
</html>

-------------------- end ---------------------------

As you can see, thanks.htm accesses phone.gif, it has to in order to
display it on the screen, yet this does NOT update the date accessed
property for phone.gif under windows xp home edition. Yet
double-clicking on phone.gif does update the date accessed property. Is
this a known problem? Can anyone explain this (with detail)? Thanks in
advance.
 
Hello everyone, the date-accessed property (column) in windows xp
explorer (not internet explorer) is unreliable. I have a test case
built up, with one small html file called thanks.htm, and one small gif
file called phone.gif.

------------------- thanks.htm ---------------------------

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0">
<title>Thanks</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<p><b>
Thank you for filling out this form.<br>
</b></p>

<p>
<font color="#0000FF"><b>[</b></font>
<a href="phone.htm"><b>Back</b><img src="phone.gif" width="40"
height="40" border="0"></a>
<font color="#0000FF">]</font>
</p>

</body>
</html>

-------------------- end ---------------------------

As you can see, thanks.htm accesses phone.gif, it has to in order to
display it on the screen, yet this does NOT update the date accessed
property for phone.gif under windows xp home edition. Yet
double-clicking on phone.gif does update the date accessed property. Is
this a known problem? Can anyone explain this (with detail)? Thanks in
advance.
because you are not actually accessing it untill you do double click on
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phone, you are just redirecting from thx gif
 
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