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In Windows Explorer Details View, you can choose to display the Date Modified or Date Created. And you can choose to view a file list in date order. Click the column header to toggle between ascending and descending order -- little up/down arrows will indicate the current order.

However -- for some reason in Windows 7 - the date columns are sorted alphabetically, not by actual date order. If the format of the date is the typical mm-dd-yy, the sort order will look like this:

1/23/09

10/14/08

12/03/09

However, if you change the date format to yyyy-mm-dd, then the dates will appear in the correct order.

2008-10-14

2009-01-23

2009-12-03

To change the format, choose

Start | Control Panel | Clock, Language, Region

In the Region and Language section, choose Change the Date, Time or Number Format.

Change the Short Date to yyyy-mm-dd

Click the Apply button at the bottom

Then click OK

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