Microsoft engineer explains why Windows can give a brand-new file the creation date of a file you already deleted

Suppose you have a file named articles.txt that you created yesterday. You delete it. A few seconds later, you create a completely different file named article.txt in the same folder. Then, strangely enough, when you open its Properties, Windows tells you that the new file was created yesterday! Like many things in Windows, this too is decades old... Weiterlesen