how do i get windows explorer history button to list folders that i've
visited that are local to my hard drive ?  I'm using windows 2000.

On win-2k if you click the little sun dial looking icon (to the right
of the folders icon) in the menu below the main menu (main menu = the
one that has File/edit/view etc.)  then you get a list of all the web
urls that you've viewed Today.

i want to configure things so that this list includes folders that
i've browsed that are on my hard drive.

An exmaple of what I want is this folder ->

C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent

However this only lists stuff opened by office. I want something that
lists every folder that I've opened (ideally not only today, but
within the last 'N' days).

can you help ?

thanks ! /chris