Quickly access recently opened files in Windows 10?

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After several attempts to get Windows Search to include contents from %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent by adding it to Indexed Locations and even creating a separate Recent folder synchronized with the contents of the Windows Recent folder and adding that to Indexed Locations and re-building the search index, I gave up and started looking at third party solutions.

I tried out Classic Shell and it works exactly the way Windows should in the first place. If you can live without using the default Windows Start Menu altogether (or use it sparingly) I'd suggest replacing it with Classic Shell.


This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but if you go to file options
file options
and set file explorer to open to quick access
folder options.
Then when you press Windows + E it will take you to quick access, displaying your recent files.

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