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Every time I create new folder in windows explorer I don't need it to be named New Folder. I need current date and time as folder name. For example 13:41 16.12.2012.

And, lets say, I'm too lazy to watch at the time and change folder name manually every time I create folder.

Is there any addon/extension/widget/alternative for windows7 explorer which handle some folder_created_event or something else and change it's name when folder is created?

Oliver Salzburg
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Change default date format to dd-mm-yyyy.

  1. Go to registry editor using '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: cmd.exe /c md "%1/%%DATE%%"
  6. Save and exit registry editor.
  7. Right-click on the folder in Windows Explorer, and click on New Folder

You will now have a folder with default name as current date instead of New Folder.

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Another page pointed out this issue: http://advsurveying.com/blog/?p=186

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.

If you do not do this, the slashes are interpreted as path separators. In other words, instead of creating a single folder named Fri 08/30/2013, it creates a folder Fri 08 and a nested folder 30 and a nested folder 2013, for a full path of Fri 08/30/2013.

This is not what you wanted, but computers only do exactly as they are told.

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