Is there a way, on Windows 10, to get a list of the most opened folders (given a certain period of t-CodePudding

It could be used to auto pin folders to Quick access in File Explorers, for example.

CodePudding user response：

If you want to pin frquently used folders to Quick access just open File Explorer Options and in the General tab check the "Show frequently used folders in Quick access" box.

CodePudding user response：

I've been digging around in the inner workings of the file system and registry for years and I don't think there is anything that does exactly what you want. But, there is a feature that you might try to make use of.

Files have a Last Accessed timestamp, I know this from my experience with the command prompt, so I did a test to see what PowerShell can give us:

Get-ChildItem | Format-List -Property *

Looking at the list of properties I found that both directories and files have these properties:

CreationTime      : 7/30/2020 8:00:25 PM
CreationTimeUtc   : 7/31/2020 1:00:25 AM
LastAccessTime    : 7/30/2020 8:02:07 PM
LastAccessTimeUtc : 7/31/2020 1:02:07 AM
LastWriteTime     : 7/30/2020 8:02:07 PM
LastWriteTimeUtc  : 7/31/2020 1:02:07 AM

With a little bit of experimenting, you might be able to make good use of LastAccessTime.