Open Jump List files in your browser
The recent and pinned files Windows shows when you right-click an app on the taskbar, kept for each app in a file of its own. See an app's list right here. Nothing leaves your device.
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What you'll see
Your Jump List opens as the files the app opened, the pinned ones first.
- Pinned and recent files
- When each was last opened • How often
- The computer • The app's ID
- Each file's shortcut as a tree • Nothing runs
About Jump List
Windows 7 brought Jump Lists in 2009: right-click an app on the taskbar or in Start, and its recent and pinned files show. Windows keeps each app's list in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, in a file named for the app's ID, and the lists apps make themselves in CustomDestinations beside it.
An AutomaticDestinations-ms file is a Compound File with a shortcut for each file, the same as a .lnk, and its DestList, which says when each was last opened, how many times and whether it's pinned, and the computer's name. The shortcuts keep each file's path, size and dates, and the drive it was on.
Filepeek reads the DestList and each shortcut with its own readers: the pinned files first, then the recent ones with when they were last opened and how often, and the app's ID and the computer. Every shortcut shows as a tree too, and nothing in them runs.
Windows Jump List
.automaticdestinations-ms • .customdestinations-ms
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Released
- 2009
Inside the file
- Holds
- An app's recent and pinned files
- Each file
- A shortcut, like a .lnk
- Keeps
- When, how often, and the computer
- Made by
- Windows, 7 on
Opens in every browser
Filepeek reads Jump Lists in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on any computer or phone. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Jump List
- WindowsThe taskbar shows it • No app opens it
- MacNo app built in opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
Which app is a Jump List for?
Its file name is the app's ID, worked out from the app's path or its own name, so the same app has the same ID on every computer. The files it lists usually give the app away.
Where are Jump Lists kept?
In %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, and in CustomDestinations for the lists apps make themselves. Paste either path in File Explorer's address bar to find them.
Can I open a CustomDestinations-ms file?
Yes. It holds the list an app makes itself, like a browser's most visited sites, and opens the same way, with each shortcut it keeps.