I had been viewing an image file "SomeName.bmp" in MS Paint (the successor to MS Paintbrush). Then, after closing the Paint session, I went behind its back and changed the filename through Cygwin command
mv SomeName.bmp SomeName2012.bmp
Then from the Windows 7 Start Button, by right-clicking on the Paint app, I got its "Recent Files" list. It still showed the old filename "SomeName.bmp". I clicked to open that one, and automagically it found the proper file "SomeName2012.bmp" to open !
Is this intelligence available to all MS VisualStudio developers with the RecentFiles list, or is it just MS Paint that is being so smart about it ?