Keeping Creation Date Download Photos Videos Iphone To Win Pc

Hi,
If I look in apple icloud, select my images, download them they lose creation date and become todays date,
if I plug in phone to win7 pc, open dcim folder, copy paste them, they also lose the creation date and become todays date, modified date also not right .
I am tld by apple if I nstall Itunes for windows and iuse that, it makes a copy of the images and videos on my phone and sends me the copies, again all dates become todays date.
I need the creation date as per other mobile phone images previously downloaded as well as those from my proper camera, EOS canon, and as per the millions of photos and videos I already store and access vie the creation date.

I google this and it says to do the dcim folder method, BUT for me windows sees it as a new file and adds todays date, wrecking my ability to search on these and my other pics with creation date in my cataloging prog and methods used for 30 yrs.

I am at a loss to know how to view my ORIGINAL files and see the true creation dates, displayed in the creation dates column in windows explorer. My file cataloging prog AbeMeda has search and display on modified and created dates only so is rendered unable to search on iphone images and I rely on that heavily. They are my intellectual property yet I am denied access to them, only copies of them which have the wrong dates applied rendering my files useless to me.

I am told by Apple to buy a mac instead to work with my iphone photos, then they will have original dates, thus meaning I have to start over, buy mac progs, I have bought 150 over the years for pc, will cost me several thousand GBP, I dont have that money, all because apple wont let me have my original images, get rid of all the new stuff for my win10 build just bought, bankrupt myself in effect.

Please there has to be a means of getting these photos I took onto a PC with true creation dates.

I was not told this when buying Apple iPhone, we should be warned. It is a fundamental basic aspect of files on PC's who has heard of the file creation date being altered for photos, if it was taken in nov 2019 it has to keep that, and I read windows keeps that when copying from drive to drive, but for me its failing, I am told its because its a mac device going to windows, so dont take photos on a mac device if hoping to work with them on windows PC !

I am absolutely gutted, 30 yrs pf PCs and this.

DBenz