Hello,
Is there I can find out a list of the programs that were open on my taskbar before my computer crashed? I tend to have lots of documents open (esp. text files I'm reading - i.e. not editing - for research purposes) and when my computer crashes or is forced to reboot, the only way I can guess which files I had previously open is by doing a Windows file search for files accessed in the past few days.
This doesn't always help - esp. as I hibernate my computer lots and files may be open and unchanged for several day.
Sometimes, when I'm about to crash, I quickly take a screen-dump of my taskbar or the task manager list of programs so I know which windows/files I had open... but isn't there a log of some sort somewhere containing information on which files were active at a particular time, just before a restart or system crash?
(I don't mean the program that caused the crash; I know I can find out about the crashing program from event viewer. I wanna know about all the OTHER program names I had open at the time. And I don't just want to know they were called 'notepad.exe', 'winword.exe' - I want to know the actual files opened up at the time of the crash. In short, I want the information I can get if I photograph the tabs on my taskbar just before a crash. We're talking about already-saved notepad files, photographs etc. that are open on my screen just before a restart.)
Any tips on whether Windows has this information somewhere? Are there any logs that may contain this information?
Thanks a lot for your help!
Is there I can find out a list of the programs that were open on my taskbar before my computer crashed? I tend to have lots of documents open (esp. text files I'm reading - i.e. not editing - for research purposes) and when my computer crashes or is forced to reboot, the only way I can guess which files I had previously open is by doing a Windows file search for files accessed in the past few days.
This doesn't always help - esp. as I hibernate my computer lots and files may be open and unchanged for several day.
Sometimes, when I'm about to crash, I quickly take a screen-dump of my taskbar or the task manager list of programs so I know which windows/files I had open... but isn't there a log of some sort somewhere containing information on which files were active at a particular time, just before a restart or system crash?
(I don't mean the program that caused the crash; I know I can find out about the crashing program from event viewer. I wanna know about all the OTHER program names I had open at the time. And I don't just want to know they were called 'notepad.exe', 'winword.exe' - I want to know the actual files opened up at the time of the crash. In short, I want the information I can get if I photograph the tabs on my taskbar just before a crash. We're talking about already-saved notepad files, photographs etc. that are open on my screen just before a restart.)
Any tips on whether Windows has this information somewhere? Are there any logs that may contain this information?
Thanks a lot for your help!