Flingrabu Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Hi, I had to reinstall Windows. I had worked on an image and was sort of using the "Recent Files" list lazily - not REALLY seeing where I had saved the file. Sort of just counting on it being easy to find. With the reinstall, of course the list is cleared. I have an image of the OLD os. Is it possible to reach the data that stores the Recent Files list? I can browse to any location on the old OS image. The file structure is totally browseable. Just need to know where that list is. If I can open the list, I can find the file information. What do you think. Possible? Sincerely Flin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 (edited) If you can not boot from the image then this will be difficult because the information is stored in the registry. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\paint.net File/MostRecent/Path0 .. 9 Path9 is the most recent.. Edited March 29, 2021 by midora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactilis Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 You could use a registry viewing app such as RegistryViewer Follow the Download 32-bit link, then old-software, then regview.7z https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1657 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 7 hours ago, Tactilis said: You could use a registry viewing app such as RegistryViewer Follow the Download 32-bit link, then old-software, then regview.7z https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1657 Or you could just use the built-in Windows utility Registry Editor (regedit.exe). It can open hive files just fine. https://www.google.com/search?q=regedit+how+to+load+hive Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted March 30, 2021 Share Posted March 30, 2021 21 minutes ago, Rick Brewster said: Or you could just use the built-in Windows utility Registry Editor (regedit.exe). It can open hive files just fine. Learned something new 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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