WMI script to find files last accessed on a certain date

May 10, 2005 amida168 VBScript, WMI 3 

dtDate = "5/2/2005"

strSearchFolder = "C:Windows"



Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

WScript.Echo "File(s) last accessed on: " & dtDate & " in: " & strSearchFolder

EnumAndCheckFiles objFSO.GetFolder(strSearchFolder), dtDate



Sub EnumAndCheckFiles(objFolder, dtDate)

    Set objFiles = objFolder.Files

    For Each objFile in objFiles

    CheckFile objFile, dtDate

    Next

    For Each objSubfolder in objFolder.SubFolders

        EnumAndCheckFiles objSubfolder, dtDate

    Next

End Sub



Sub CheckFile(objFile, dtDate)

    If DateDiff("d", objFile.DateLastAccessed, dtDate) = 0 Then

        WScript.Echo objFile.Path

    End if

End Sub
  • Roy Billstrom

    Great stuff. Keep it up.

    • David Baker

      I have been working in IT for quite some time but have almost solely used bat/cmd files for scripting. Is there something special to getting a VB script to work? Thanks. Sorry for seeming stupid?

      • amida168

        You need to use an admin account to run the script. You can run the vbscript in a command prompt window by typing:

        cscript script-name.vbs