It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/grizzlypass on 2025-01-19 21:58:32.

Posting this so people can tell me if they can relate or simply want to make fun of me.

So I just installed Windows 11 (built a new PC) and stupidly forgot to change the setting where the OS will change the "Accessed" date of files when read, and it's bugging the HELL out of me how the timestamps of files that I haven't touched for months, or even years, have now been updated with new timestamps.

Is there any way to revert these changes or figure out what the original timestamps of a file were? Why the hell did Microsoft even change the "disablelastaccess" setting so "Accessed" timestamps are updated even if your boot drive is over 128 GB?