Any way to search for recently modified files in WIN 7 Pro 64?

[uberman]

I used to have a hotkey program that would bring up files modified in the last 15 minutes with a single keystroke.

I was just reading notebookreview.com when an animated GIF appeared on my screen saying it was installing drivers, it was very fast. The last time this happened, 7 years ago, I spent 3 hours at Castle Cops and after several procedures I had extracted malware/virus. I'm running an Avira full scan now.

FYI, Castle Cops was a useful site, but it was taken down several years ago because there was an arguement with Russian hackers that got out of hand.

A recently modified file search would have been faster than a full anti-virus scan.

UPDATE: Full virus scan came up clean, no detections.

 

[Mike64]

What you ended up doing is probably easier (and surely faster in terms of "active" user-time), but fwiw, while I'm embarrassed to admit I can't think of a more "elegant" solution offhand, you could use "dir" from the command line with a bunch of switches to get a usable, if tediously long, list of all the files (plus alternate data streams, just in case) on your OS drive, sorted in reverse chron order by the time they were last written to. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to actually limit the results to files written to after a particular time (using just a single command, that is), but if you redirect the output to a file, scanning the list wouldn't be too horribly painful, just time-consuming, since any relevant files would be at the top of the list(s) for each subdirectory. E.g.:

dir c\*.* /a/r/s/t:w/o:g-d > [I]<output file>[/I]

This is the MS Technet page with a list of all the command's switches and their parameters.

PS: You don't have to sort the output by subdirectories in alpha order (the g parameter to the "/o" switch), it just seemed to make the list a little easier on the eyes...

 

[John Connor]

There's a couple malware scanners that will list newly created and modified files.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php?threads/scanning-with-oldtimer-ots.225176/

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/441075/fss-tips-tricks-and-requests/

http://www.freefixer.com/

Freefixer can damage your computer if you remove the wrong item. So research each and know what you are doing.

 

[Bardock]

You can do it easily in windows explorer in windows 10. Open explorer, click This PC, click the search bar, then click date modified, then click today. Works for me.

 

[Mike64]

You can do it easily in windows explorer in windows 10. Open explorer, click This PC, click the search bar, then click date modified, then click today. Works for me.

If you're willing to expand the search to the full day (rather than a short period of time like the OP mentioned), I'm pretty sure you can do that in any Windows version (certainly as far back as Vista), not to to mention switches to the "DOS" "dir" command, it's not a new feature in Win10. It's narrowing searches down to a specific time-of-day-frame that's impossible using only a single Windows built-in command...