Sep
I was gone all day at class and left my computer running. I got home at about 9:30 tonight and went to open a Word document, and noticed that all of the “recently viewed” documents in Word were different– i haven't even looked at two of them in more than a year!
I'm infuriated because this means my roommate was on my computer looking through my stuff. It's late now and he's already asleep, or I'd confront him.
For now, is there ANY way that I have the ability to find out exactly what he looked at? I want to know how much snooping he did.
Answer:
Not sure how many it can store but check the following folder.
C:\Documents and Settings\
Answer:
You can either click into the start menu on the bottom left of the personal and go to the recent view section or you can go into the Microsoft Word and choose the “insert” on the toolbar and you will find “hyperlink”, click in and you can see the current used documents. (In the Microsoft Word, it didn't just show the recent documents you used in Word, instead it shows basically every programs you used recently). I hope that it would be helpful.
Answer:
Nope. It's a convenience feature. Once newer documents bump older documents out of the list, there's no way to “retrieve” them.
You might try looking at current documents in the begin menu. That would be your only resource.
Next time, lock your desktop. Lesson learned?
Answer:
on windows xp
Begin > Search (Or open windows explorer and click search). In All or part of the file name: *.* (star dot star) Expand When was it altered select Specify dates. Drop down from Modified date to Accessed Date. Enter the dates in the boxes, and click search.
That will get you all files accessed within a 24 hour period. (Do *.doc to see just doc files accessed) You can sort and view them by when they were accessed. In the column header for the results, right-click one of the column headers. This gives you options to add other column headers. Select More… and then check the box next to accessed date. When you add that column you can see the time it was accessed too.
You can create user accounts so he won't be able to get into your account.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279783
User accounts can automatically require login after x minutes of activity, but I'm not sure how to configure that or if you can even do it with a normal home installation (not on a domain.)
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