Way to find most recent thing on HDD?

[-Slacker-]

Like the title asks, is there a way to determine what's the most recent installed app, download or moved file(s) on your hard drive? Like a log or something?

edit: ah, it seems that I masterfully overlooked the first and only sticky in the subforum, then I kept wondering why nobody wants to reply. Anyway, can a mod please move this to the OS subforum?

 

[dbarton]

You can sort by date on a directory, and programs like Directory Opus have a flat view where you can see the contents of all directories in one giant view.

 

[Buddyd]

in windows open the command prompt and enter:

dir c:\ /s /o:d > %HOMEPATH%\Desktop\myfilelist.txt

The top of the text file will show all the directories on the C:\ drive and what date they were last edited the most recent will be at the bottom of the list. The directories are then broken out individually below again the last file listed in each directory is the earliest one edited or created.

 

[dbarton]

Clever, but it kinda sorts the wrong way to do what OP asks, no?

 

[Buddyd]

dbarton: yeah it shows the most recent last after a quick dir help command you can place a negative sign (-) infront of the d in the order option (/o:-d) and it will sort with newest files first.