Question

how can i get data prgogrammaticaly from windows registry MRU list? I am using vc++. For example windows xp search history is located in Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603. How can i get data from it?

EDIT:I still dont know howto do this, can you be more specific? So what steps do i need to do to have acess to data?

Answer 1

As for the Run MRU have a look at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

Document MRU is saved on filesystem as .lnk-files. Under Windows 7 it is:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

Edit:

On this XP Machine I’ve got only one entry under the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603

It is

Name=000, Type=REG_SZ, Value="*.tmp"

I suppose that means that on this machine Search has only been used once, more precisely it is the first (and only) entry in the MRU list, so next entry showing up would be:

Name=001, Type=REG_SZ, Value=... and so on.

If your question is now how to access the Windows registry, have a look here:

Good Windows Registry Wrapper for C++

or for the plain api here:

http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/Working-with-the-Windows-Registry-in-C-plus-plus/