Re: Can XP show me list of recently visted folders?

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From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 08:32:44 -0500

Zak <zak@nomail.invalid> writes:
>Can XP show me a list of recently visted folders?

>I am thinking of something similar to "My Recent Documents" on the
>Start menu but with folders rather than documents.

>If not then maybe a registry tweak would allow me to include
>recently visited folders in the list shown by "My Recent Documents"?

If you peek at the details of the contents of Temporary Internet Files
folder you can see that it maintains a "Last Accessed" date/timestamp
for everything in there. You can sort that on any column and if you
sort on Last Accessed then the most recently accessed files and
folders will be at the top of the list.

So that sounds like it is almost what you want, if you used IE to
visit the folders on your drive, instead of say Windows explorer,
and that is certainly possible to do..

But there are lots of other things that get dumped into that folder
besides the folders on your local drive, that you don't want to see.

For a completely different reason, I'd dearly like to find a way for
a script to get the same information on the Temporary Internet Files
folder contents. If it were possible to do that then a little script
might be able to sift through all of it and just show you your
recently visited folders.

Anyone seen any information about how a script can get all that info,
not just the names of the items in the folder?

Thank you

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