How to access recently opened files in Windows 8?

Question

How does one access the list of recently opened files in Windows 8 using Java?

In other words, what is the path for the "recent document" folder in Windows, which could be passed as argument in constructor of file class to access the files in that folder?

Probably no such path exists, but I am sure there has to be some other way to access the recently opened files. — Danny, Oct 12 '13 at 20:49
how to use that into my program? i want to make a program which takes a record of all the PDF files opened recently. — Mohd Faizan Khan, Oct 12 '13 at 20:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

Try to look here -

MS Office Docs - C:\Users\YouAccount\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office\Recent
Opened by Explorer - C:\Users\YouAccount\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

To get the actual path by link - see these topics:

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 12 '13 at 21:14

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It is always inside %USERPROFILE%\Recent, so using System.env(argument)

String userProfileDir = System.getenv("USERPROFILE")+"\\Recent";

should do the trick.

edited Oct 12 '13 at 21:14

answered Oct 12 '13 at 21:12

Sage

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How to access recently opened files in Windows 8?

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