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are there any others folders on a windows 7 machine that would give clues about files a user has recently accessed? I have read about a &quot;recent places&quot; folder but cant find it on a copy of a users hdd.
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aside from c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\recent and c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\office\recent 

are there any others folders on a windows 7 machine that would give clues about files a user has recently accessed? I have read about a "recent places" folder but cant find it on a copy of a users hdd.

recent accessed documents on windows 7 computers

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