If you have programming experience you could develop a simple shell extension on your own. Unfortunately I don't know such a shell extension that would fit your needs. This feature will let you see which updates were downloaded and installed on your computer. If you can’t find the latest update through Windows Update, try using the Windows History feature. If you don't want that the only alternative would be installing a Windows Shell-extension that add an custom column showing the file creation date in the format you have in mind. If you’re using Windows 10, but can’t seem to find the latest update, you may have the same problem. If you want to change the date format you can do so in Windows settings as shown in this question: How to make Windows file explorer show full dates for files - including year? Right click on the target folder/file and select Properties. The date format used by the Windows Explorer is the one defined globally. Navigate Windows Explorer to the file you want to monitor. Click in the search box to make the Search Tools tab available on the ribbon, then click the Date modified button and choose one of the available options. Regarding the date format this can not be configured for the 'Creation Date' column only. Therefore if you open a different folder in Explorer you again have to add the Creation Date column for that folder. Note that this setting is folder-specific. Switch Windows Explorer to column view, right click a column header and and in the context menu that pops up select 'Creation Date' for enabling the additional column.

You can show the 'creation date' that is stored for files in the Windows Explorer easily:

How to find files by date in windows 10