Windows 10: Retaining File Dates From Compressed Files

I have a number of folders that I sent to compressed files to make it easier to move to a new laptop. When I uncompress them on the new laptop the file date is changed to the current as they're written to the file system. That makes basic sense, but I want them to keep the original date/times.

I looked at the options for the compact command and it's not an available option. This being a work laptop, I'm also not able to install anything like 7-Zip or Winzip which may allow me to uncompress them and retain the file attributes.

Would someone be able to point me in the right direction?

Update:

Installing or using portable 3rd software not already on the system is forbidden by policy and monitored, and I understand it's for good reasons. So I'm trying to figure out how myself and others who will be getting new laptops can retain file dates without needing anything extra or traveling long distances. Gotta be done locally with nothing connected to the system or extra software involved.

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Compress files??

It all depends on the contents. Back in the early days of DVD games, they had plenty of space compared to CD's. So they left stuff uncompressed on the DVD itself. Compressing such ISO image would result in very high compression ratio. But these days, even DVD discs are becoming small and game companies are already using data compression to fit more data on the same DVD. And since you cannot compress already compressed data, you're seeing more and more of the 99% compresion ratio moments.

Good examples of such scenarios is when you want to compres uncompressed WAV file and a MP3 file. WAV is not compressed and you can decrease its size significantly. You might gain few kilobytes when trying to compress already compressed MP3. The same is with images. You can compress BMP images rather well but when compressing JPG images, you won't really gain anything as its already compressed.

There are few very specialized algorithms that may gain some more compression out of already compressed data, but the gains are usually very small and usually not worth the extra compression time needed to perform the compression itself. Plus you can only use them to compress very specific data files.

 

Compress files??

using upx? to compress exe files
but you need to make it executable zip first then do upx

 

So I used KGB Archiver to compress a 10gb file into a 40mb file...

Exactly. Most compression programs change a series of 1s and/or 0s to a couple of digits, and stores the total file in a table of contents/index. If you've got a file with TONS of repeating digits, sure, but pictures? No way to get that kind of compression in the real world.


from an article on "How To Geek"

First, we installed Bastion and compressed its folder — about 863 MB in size of music, graphics, executable files, and various different types of documents:

• Zip (Windows 8.1): 746 MB (86.4% of the original size)
• Zip (WinZip): 745 MB (86.3% of the original size)
• RAR (WinRAR): 746 MB (86.4% of the original size)
• 7z (7-Zip): 734 MB (85% of the original size)

Next, we compressed Hotline Miami, which is 654 MB of data:

• Zip (Windows 8.1): 316 MB (48.3% of the original size)
• Zip (WinZip): 314 MB (48% of the original size)
• RAR (WinRAR): 307 MB (46.9% of the original size)
• 7z (7-Zip): 301 MB (46% of the original size)

I would not expect a great deal of change from those numbers in November of 2014 to now, nor would I expect any real-world files to come any where NEAR the compression rate of .4%.