Change date modified to date taken?

I have always thought that it was crazy that the EXIF data for my digital pictures can get changed in Windows/Adobe from date taken to date modified.  I have mentioned it in these forums before but never got a satisfactory answer.
I looked at the problem again & find that other have the same problem & that there appears to be a solution. I find on the net a small utility called.  'JPGDateChanger'.  Before I tried it I thought  that I should ask has anyone used this program & did it work correctly for them?  If the change that would appear in Windows explorer have the same result in PSE 11,or does it create problems with the catalog?
If at all possible I would prefer to get this done within PSE 11.  Is there any way to achieve it & if not why not?

The organizer that ships with the PRE Elements + PS elements 12 Combo pack uses the file systems Date Modified for organizing (win 8.1 64bit) . It does not  use the  Date Taken from the EXIF data. 
This can be easily confirmed using Windows explorer.  If you sort in Explorer by modified date, that is exactly the order the files appear in Organizer.  If you add the Date Taken (by right clicking the column headers and adding the column) you can see the EXIF date taken field.  The organizer ignores this filed in favor of Date Modified.
The workaround is to use the little JPGchanger application referenced here to set the date modified to the date taken field.  This tool was specifically written to fix this issue.
The other proposed work around's involved renaming files to include date taken in the file name itself during import.  Not only is that clumsy, but I have already have 10,000+ pics  on my computer that aren't named that way.
My two Cameras are a Canon S90 and an ESO 550D.  I also have pictures from  Google Nexus5  and Samsung Galaxy phones to deal with. Not having the EXIF Date Taken field used is a MAJOR pain!

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