https://www.verboon.info/tags/most-recent-used-programs/Recent content in Most-Recent-Used-Programs on Anything About ITHugoen-usFri, 21 Oct 2011 22:59:23 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2011/10/windows-7-mfu-most-frequent-used-programs/Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:59:23 +0000https://www.verboon.info/2011/10/windows-7-mfu-most-frequent-used-programs/<p>This week I found an interesting tool called UserAssist.exe written by Didier Stevens. The UserAssist tool lists the UserAssist registry keys  stored under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist. This is the location where Windows 7 (and earlier versions of Windows) retrieves the information about the execution frequency of applications started by users. If you are interested about the details of the UserAssist registry keys I recommend that you read some of Didier Stevens <a href="http://blog.didierstevens.com/?s=user+assist">blog posts</a> and his <a href="http://intotheboxes.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/intotheboxes_2010_q1.pdf">article</a> he wrote for the Digital Forensics and Incident Response Magazine.</p>