Displaying list of recently opened Softwares

I have a PC in my house with Windows XP installed and have a lot of softwares that I use for my personal uses. I normally do not allow anyone to open these softwares especially MSN Messenger since it has my ID and Password remembered in it. Whenever I share my computer with anyone, I give instructions to them not to open such and such softwares. Just recently I had a similar situation where I had to share my computer. As usual I said him not to open MSN Messenger. But when I came back from my work I found something suspicious and asked him whether he had opened my Messenger. He said me he hadn't but I decided to check up and found a very useful software to check the list of recently opened Applications and Softwares...




The software that I used was MUICacheView by Nirsoft.

MUI cache is a place in the registry where the operating system stores the list of recently opened applications for later use. MUI Cache View extracts this information from the registry and displays it to the user. The software also has option to view and edit the list of the MUI Cache. Also keep in mind that even if you clear the MUI Cache items, it will reappear the next time you launch the software. Here is the link to download MUICacheView.