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Figure 6-1: Directory structure for experiment test files
6.4.1 Methodology
In order to identify the structure of the Windows 7 thumbnail cache a clone of
the Virtual Machine Image discussed in the Section 6.3 was used. The
directory containing the thumbnail cache was extracted from the baseline
image, to allow further examination and provide a baseline.
Experiment Set 1 involved the addition of 500 different user generated files to
the system. The addition of files to the system aimed to populate the thumbnail
cache with data; the data could be used to ascertain the structure and syntax of
the thumbnail cache files. In order to ensure a variety of file types were included
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