Windows 10 Operating System List Of Files

I have been trying to find a list of all the files contained in the Windows
10 x86 operating system to include filename, last date updated, file size,
and file version number. Any such animal exist?
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Bill

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Bill Bradshaw wrote:
I have been trying to find a list of all the files contained in the Windows
10 x86 operating system to include filename, last date updated, file size,
and file version number. Any such animal exist?

So your thinking is that there is a "definitive list" ?

Say an AMD machine receives a different file than
an Intel machine. Then what ?

You could install your reference OS in a VM, install
the last Cumulative (Patch Tuesday) update and call
it close enough.

Using the "dism ... /restorehealth" and the "sfc /scannow"
commands, you can roughly bring the OS files back into tune.
That must use package manifests or something, as otherwise
it would be pretty hard to work out what files belong there.
Those two commands will not "patch up-to-date" an OS. Only
downloading a package and installing it, changes the machine
state. The two service commands merely ensure that whatever
records are kept, that the files on C: match the record-keeping.

If you deleted an Internet Explorer folder, it might
come close to putting the files back. But it might
not be clever enough to repair folder structure. For example,
if you delete the 6GB contents of WinSXS (the thing DISM
repairs), I doubt it has the ability to do 6GB of downloads
and put it all back.

The sfc /scannow, will play a part in hard-linking files
from WinSXS, into the System32 folder. System files have
one set of clusters, and two file pointers. Deleting
WinSXS causes no problem at all for System32, but once
WinSXS is deleted, the OS cannot be maintained (no more
Patch Tuesday for you).

Paul

On 17/02/2018 18:19, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
I have been trying to find a list of all the files contained in the Windows
10 x86 operating system to include filename, last date updated, file size,
and file version number. Any such animal exist?

There is no such thing as last update date because by the time you have
finished reading the list that contains thousands of files, the date
would have changed again. Windows 10 is a provided as a service and so
it is changing almost every minute!!!!.

You can generate the list yourself on your system if you know something
about directories and piping!!!!!!!!

Is this your new hobby to read file names and date of updates? It must
be very interesting for you. Have you thought of "Train Spotting" as a
hobby? All the anoraks are into it.



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On 02/17/2018 01:19 PM, Bill Bradshaw wrote:
I have been trying to find a list of all the files contained in the Windows
10 x86 operating system to include filename, last date updated, file size,
and file version number. Any such animal exist?

This isn't exactly what you want... it's not close but I thought I'd
toss it out anyway.


List All the Windows Updates Installed

Some programs, such as Belarc Advisor, will include a list of updates in an overall analysis of what is on your computer. This type of comprehensive survey of your computer’s contents is worthwhile but there is also an easier way to get a list of Windows updates. This method takes advantage of the command line and requires no installation of additional software. Open the command prompt and enter this command:
wmic qfe list brief /format:htable "%USERPROFILE%\hotfix.html"
This produces a nicely formatted list in an HTML file named hotfix.html that gets placed in the User folder. You can, of course, change the destination to some other convenient location. If there are any spaces in the name of a folder that you choose, don’t forget to wrap the destination name in quotes, as is done in the commands given in this tip.
If you would rather have a text file, the command would be:
wmic qfe list brief /format:texttablewsys "%USERPROFILE%\hotfix.txt"

I have no idea where I got this but I have used it before otherwise I
would not have kept it in my "my docs" folder.

Al.