It may be straightforward to find the last modified file in a given folder, but what if I wish to find the last modified file from among a group of folders, or from all the sub directories in a folder. Here is my solution which makes use of the following two things: * Command prompt (to get there in Windows, press Window key + R and type cmd ) * Any spreadsheet program like MS Excel, OpenOffice Calc etc. Step 1: At the command prompt, use the DIR command to generate the list of files that you wish to search among. It is important that the command returns a list of files with the date of modification column included. Use the > operator to write the output to a file. Example: DIR C:\myfolder\*.c /s /t:w > dir.txt The above command, lists all the C files in the C:\myfolder directory and its subdirectories and creates a file dir.txt in the current working directory and writes the output into it. The /t:w switch makes sure that the date and time stamp is that of the last writte...