In my Previous Article, I showed how to Find Your Computer’s Windows Installation Date and Time, and now I am gonna show you How to Change Windows Installation Date and Time Using the Registry Editor.
Step 1: First of all Open “Run” dialog box. To do so you can either do it by typing “Run” in the Start Menu search or by pressing the “Win+R” key combination.
Step 2: Now type “regedit” in the box that appears and hit enter. You can also type “regedit” in the Start Menu search to open Registry Editor.
Step 3: Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows NT > CurrentVersion > “ in the Registry Editor Windows.
Step 4: You will find a key named “InstallDate” in the Right sidebar as shown in below image.Just Double Click on it.
Step 5: A new popup box will appear showing numerical value. This is the number of seconds between 1/1/1970 and your installation time.
Step 6: To change your Windows installation date just add or subtract the duration by which you want to change your date. For Example – If you wish to add one day to your installation date, then add “60x60x24=86400″ to the value.
If I wanted to add one day to my installation date, I would change the value to “1350224291″. Now Click OK
after that.That’s it, Now go and Check your Installation Date and See the Difference.
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NO LONGER WORKING, IN THE NEWEST WINDOWS 10 VERSION, THAT KEY DOES NOT EXIST!! NOV-2020
Sir, then how to change installation date please share with me
unix timestamp.. have fun xD
U need Dcode prog to decode time ;-)
Sir, how to change installation date. Pl share with me I need help
# Generating a random date between Jan 1, 2011, and Dec 31, 2022 $start = [datetime]::new(2011, 1, 1) $end = [datetime]::new(2022, 12, 31) $randomDate = $start.AddSeconds((Get-Random -Maximum (($end - $start).TotalSeconds))) # Converting the DateTime object to Unix timestamp $unixTimestamp = [int][double]::Parse(($randomDate.ToUniversalTime() - [datetime]'1970-01-01T00:00:00').TotalSeconds) # Calculating LDAP/FILETIME timestamp directly $LDAP_FILETIME_timestamp = ($unixTimestamp + 11644473600) * 10000000 Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" -Name "InstallDate" -Value "$unixTimestamp" -Force Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" -Name "InstallTime" -Value "$LDAP_FILETIME_timestamp" -Force if ((Get-Service w32time).Status -eq 'Stopped') { Start-Service w32time } w32tm /config /syncfromflags:manual /manualpeerlist:"0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org 3.pool.ntp.org" /update Restart-Service w32time ; w32tm /resync