TouchPro Help

What is TouchPro?

TouchPro lets you alter the time and date of files on your computer.

Touching file time and date values is a common practice in software release mechanisms to provide a quick means of determining the version of a file. Most Touch utilities are command line programs used from batch files. TouchPro is an interactive graphical Touch utility that integrates into Windows Explorer as a shell extension. You select files and folders with Explorer in the normal manner, and from the Property Pages have instant access to a Touch facility.

The registered version of TouchPro enables some facilities that are normally disabled, and for ease of use, you can save the last used settings.

Thanks for using TouchPro. We hope you find it useful.

Please tell us how you find it, and, if you have any suggestions for improvements do not hesitate to let us know. Similarly, if you have any problems, send us an email and we will endeavour to help as quickly as possible.

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The About dialog is where you enter your registration information. Be sure to enter the information exactly as it appears in your registration mail message.

Once you have registered, the About box will no longer show the entry fields, but will instead display your registered name.


Choose this option to have TouchPro change the Last Accessed timestamp.

Some applications have their own property pages for viewing information about their files. These extensions can access the file without you being aware of it, so this value may change after you have altered it with TouchPro.


Choose this option to have TouchPro change the Created timestamp.


Use this control to set the date that you want TouchPro to use.


Choose this to have TouchPro modify the timestamp of folders.

This facility is only available in a registered version.


Choose this option to have TouchPro change the Modified timestamp.

This is the value that is normally displayed in Explorer, or from a DIR command.


If this is checked, TouchPro will modify the date. If it is unchecked, TouchPro will leave any files with their existing date.

This can only be de-selected in a registered copy of TouchPro.


If this is checked, TouchPro will modify the time. If it is unchecked, TouchPro will leave any files with their existing time.

This can only be de-selected in a registered copy of TouchPro.


Choose this to have TouchPro work on the contents of all nested sub-directories.

With this item selected, TouchPro will operate on all the files in sub-directories in any branches contained in the current selection.

This facility is only available in a registered version.


Use this control to set the time that you want TouchPro to use.


Run TouchPro to effect the time & date change.


Win32 Files Times

Win32 (Windows 9x, NT, Windows 2000, etc) have three time and date values:

Accessed, Modified, and Created.


Set this to use a 24-hr format in the time control, rather than your default system time format.

This facility is only available in a registered version.


Set this to use the short date format (which is usually numeric) in the date control, rather than the long date format (which usually represents the month by name).

This facility is only available in a registered version.


Save the current settings so that TouchPro will start with the same values and options.

This facility is only available in a registered version.


Choose this to have TouchPro modify the time of files.

The ability to disable this option is only available in a registered version.


This option allows TouchPro to alter the timestamps of read-only files and folders. Without this option, TouchPro will silently ignore read-only files and folders.

This facility is only available in a registered version.