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Can someone give me a pointer on where to look on how to get AHK to add directories to the Windows 7 'recent places' window?

Ta!

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Stuart Halliday

need to know the location of recent places or how to create a folder?

I guess both.

'Recent places' isn't an actual folder, so I guess it is a system folder with a unique number?

I tried looking through the registry for a location called 'recent places' and didn't find one.

I want to put my own shortcuts to real folders in 'recent places' via a AHK script.

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Stuart Halliday

well, it is a actual folder and it is located:
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

You can't add a folder there, you can but you wount see it in recent files.
if you add a shortcut to a location you se it,

Hi John,

My copy of Windows 7 SP1, doesn't have that.

See image:

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Stuart Halliday

it's right there, I see it, but the name is "Recent Items", on my computer it says "tidigare" witch is recent items in swedish

Lol, it is right there, sorry couldn't resist . . .

Just double click this folder . . .

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Hope this helps / Thanks <-------- (Delete Appropriate)

Chris

No that isn't it.

In Recent Places I have 39 items (all folders)

In Recent Items (which contains files and shortcuts) I have 150.

Not the same thing at all.

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Stuart Halliday

recent places objecs is in recent items folder, just that in recent places it only shows recent places.

Eh?

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Stuart Halliday

...since everyone's so screenshotty, can you show me a screenshot of "Recent Places"?

Windows likes to lie about "Special" folder's names. So "Recent Items", probably really is located at C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent it's just that the "real" folder name is "Recent" & the UI "Pretty Name" is "Recent Items". I'm not sure where "Recent Places" comes into play, as I haven't seen a screenshot of that. But it very well could be a "limited view" of the "Recent Items" folder. Like the 50 (or less) most recent items (only folders? {or "shortcuts to folders}), used/accessed in the last day or week.


...so, "Recent Places" is probably using the contents of "Recent Items" to get it's results. Just place a shortcut (to a folder) there & try it!

Note: You will likely need to have a script periodically update the modified (or accessed) date on the shortcut you create, so it will stay "Recent", but we can jump off that bridge once you get a shortcut to display in "Recent Places"...just know that "once you get it working", there's (probably) more to do to "keep it working".

Here is a screenshot of my recent places.



Hopes this helps.

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Stuart Halliday

...thx, but also we want you to test...


...place a shortcut (to a folder) in the "Recent Items" folder & just find out if it shows up in "Recent Places", then we can go from there. I know you think those are different things (& they could be), but just test it & find out.

Ah ha!

When I open a file then the parent folder and the file name appears in 'Recent Items'. But only the folder appears in 'Recent Places'.

But if the file is on my desktop then the desktop folder doesn't appear in the 'Recent places'. Logical I guess.

Cute.

But I can't add a shortcut to 'Recent Items' as I'm barred from doing so by the OS.

Any idea how to add my own folders to 'Recent Places/Items'?

I've got a AHK script that lists the last 20 explorer opened windows and this is in a AHK menu list.

If I click on one of these folders in the AHK list, it opens a Explorer window of that folder. But it doesn't get added to the Recent Items folder. So this must be an action by a 3rd party program and not the OS.

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Stuart Halliday

...what error msg? Are you admin? (do you even need admin to write there?) I think I will try this on a Win7 computer soon.