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What's the best way to migrate data from Win 7 Pro PC to Win 10 Pro PC without losing file and folder creation/modification dates?

I want to migrate data from one laptop to another and do not want to lose the file creation and modification dates. What are some strategies and/or utilities I can use.
This is migrating data from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro.
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robocopy preserves meta attributes by default

most archievers also do that by default. try with 7-zip : i should preserve said dates

last time i checked, the regular copy did not. maybe there is a flag that does the trick nowadays.