I noticed that in Vista the file Date Last Modified can be more recentthan the Date List Accessed. Running a ChkDsk does not fix it. Isthere something that does?  I have a JNI class to get/set the variousWindows file dates, but I thought this should be something thathappens automatically.--Roedy Green Canadian Mind ProductsThe Java Glossaryhttp://mindprod.com

Roedy Green wrote:> I noticed that in Vista the file Date Last Modified can be more recent> than the Date List Accessed. Running a ChkDsk does not fix it. Is> there something that does?  I have a JNI class to get/set the various> Windows file dates, but I thought this should be something that> happens automatically.This would be a Windows problem. Before you can get a fix for this "problem", you first have to get Microsoft toacknowledge that it is a problem, and not a feature.GMBYF. This was the first hit I got when searching:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/speed-up-disk-access-by-disabling-last-access-updating-in-windows-xp/Maybe you can apply the registry tweak in reverse, if you want to slow down thesystem. Don't forget that all the directory indexing which Vista performs onyour behalf will require setting the file last access date, which will requirere-writing the filesystem header blocks for every file in the filesystem everytime it runs. I'd go make that coffee now.-- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,            University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail :    nmw@ion.le.ac.uk Phone :     +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555