Windows 10: How to prefix a file name with current date using PowerToys?

I'm NOT talking about timestamping a date in the Notepad or MS Word; but I’m looking for a keyboard shortcut to insert current year, or month, to prefix a file name while saving the files. Can PowerToys do it? Please be specific.

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I am not able to uninstall PowerToys from my system.

Hello Kevin

I installed PowerToys via Microsoft Store. There are other ways and more information listed here, out of which I chose Microsoft Store.

However, whenever I try to uninstall it, it leads me to the Control Panel, which, as I said earlier, doesn't show PowerToys in its list. I am confused because I tried these same steps on my other Microsoft Store applications, and your steps seem to be perfectly applicable to these applications.

 

Windows 10 How to change “New Folder” default name for folders in explorer to current date and time?

Before you begin you must change the Windows System date format under Regional Settings in Control Panel. You cannot use / in the date format since this is an invalid character for folder names. Change the / to – in the date format. You cannot skip this step. Your date format must contain valid characters for folder names.

1. Go to registry editor using the regedit command.
   
2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell.
   
3. Make a new key New Folder.
   
4. Inside this key, create another key command.
   
5. Type the following value for the key inside it (edit the (Default) item's data): cmd.exe /c md "%1/%%DATE%%"
   
6. Save and exit Registry Editor.
   

Now, to create the folders, instead of clicking New > Folder, instead use the context item New Folder. This runs the command script defined in step 5, which creates a new folder with the current date.

You will now have a folder with default name as the current date instead of "New Folder".

 

New Microsoft PowerToys version v0.63.0 for Windows 10 and Windows 11

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerTo...es/tag/v0.63.0


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