Disorder of batch file - redirect the contents of the directory in a text file

I wrote a batch file that's used to work (until the upgrade to Win7). The goal of the program is to simply write the contents of a directory in a text file. I currently use the timeout to add to this text file every minute to test the program. That should give me a timeline when the contents of the directory to change throughout the day.

It's the batch file:

Here is the result:

The actual file changes in size throughout the day, but the dir command does not seem to recognize any changes being made to the directory.

If I go into the directory in Explorer, the file shows the old size and timestamp and update then immediately to the right size and time. After doing this the batch file now saves the change to the directory, but he will be stuck there until I refresh the directory in Explorer again.

As I said above, it worked on XP but not in Windows 7.

Does anyone have an idea how do the command dir to refresh the directory before you write in the text file? Or ideas of another method to achieve the same goal? I used to work on a Unix workstation and I used 'touch' to perform this function

Thanks in advance for any help,

Tom

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