Thursday, September 18, 2008

Create Folders with Current Date

Storing digital photos, Email's, Chat is great with Date-based folders.You can customize menus in Windows Xp to create a folder named with current date, with just two mouse clicks.........

Choose a valid date format , for eg. 19/09/08 is verbotten as windows doesn't allow slashes in the file and foder names.

Folow the steps below to create chronological folders:

* Click Start ==> Run ==> Enter 'control intl.cpl' ==> Press
<Enter>

* Select 'Regional options' tab ==> Customize

* Select 'Date' tab ==> choose 'yyyy-MM-dd' format from
the drop-down menu

* Click OK

Now we can add a command to create a folder with this date format.

* Press <Windows>-E which pops up Windows Explorer

* Selct Tools ==> Folder Options ==> File Types ==> Select
Registered File Types List

* Scroll to and select 'File Folder'

* Click 'Advanced' to open 'Edit File Type' dialog box

* Click 'New'

For 'Action' Type the words which you would wish to see in the context menu for the command.I named it as 'New Folder With Current Date'

For 'Application' used to perform action, type cmd.exe/e md "%1\%%DATE%%"

Click OK twice.

Now you have your folders all in Chronological order....

Have Fun and Please Comment!!!

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