"Is there a way I can change the settings so that the topic start date/time is displayed without clicking on the topic ?"
hi barbarian, there is no setting that can change and display this to 'topic start date/time'. you must click on the topic, however if you look in the far left column you can click on 'last post' and you can read the last post made and also displays the date and time. that column also has 'last post' for the last post made also. hope this makes sense?