diff --git a/RecentActivity/nbproject/project.xml b/RecentActivity/nbproject/project.xml
index 70b71da333..c4bb24dbba 100644
--- a/RecentActivity/nbproject/project.xml
+++ b/RecentActivity/nbproject/project.xml
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@
                 <runtime-relative-path>ext/sqlite-jdbc-3.7.6.3-20110609.081603-3.jar</runtime-relative-path>
                 <binary-origin>release/modules/ext/sqlite-jdbc-3.7.6.3-20110609.081603-3.jar</binary-origin>
             </class-path-extension>
+            <class-path-extension>
+                <runtime-relative-path>ext/JLnkParser.jar</runtime-relative-path>
+                <binary-origin>release/modules/ext/JLnkParser.jar</binary-origin>
+            </class-path-extension>
             <class-path-extension>
                 <runtime-relative-path>ext/gson-2.1.jar</runtime-relative-path>
                 <binary-origin>release/modules/ext/gson-2.1.jar</binary-origin>
diff --git a/RecentActivity/release/modules/ext/JLnkParser.jar b/RecentActivity/release/modules/ext/JLnkParser.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e1061b5cb7
Binary files /dev/null and b/RecentActivity/release/modules/ext/JLnkParser.jar differ
diff --git a/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/ExtractIE.java b/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/ExtractIE.java
index 45243037b9..efa09cc3ea 100755
--- a/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/ExtractIE.java
+++ b/RecentActivity/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/recentactivity/ExtractIE.java
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.Scanner;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import jlnkparser.JLNK;
+import jlnkparser.JLnkParser;
 
 // TSK Imports
 import org.openide.modules.InstalledFileLocator;
@@ -62,8 +64,7 @@ import org.sleuthkit.datamodel.FsContent;
 import org.sleuthkit.datamodel.SleuthkitCase;
 import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.PlatformUtil;
 import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.ingest.IngestServiceImage;
-import org.sleuthkit.datamodel.FileSystem;
-import org.sleuthkit.datamodel.Image;
+import org.sleuthkit.datamodel.*;
 
 public class ExtractIE extends Extract implements IngestServiceImage {
 
@@ -206,34 +207,15 @@ public class ExtractIE extends Extract implements IngestServiceImage {
                 break;
             }
             Content fav = Recent;
-            byte[] t = new byte[(int) fav.getSize()];
-
-            int bytesRead = 0;
-            if (fav.getSize() > 0) {
-                try {
-                    bytesRead = fav.read(t, 0, fav.getSize()); // read the data
-                } catch (Exception ex) {
-                    logger.log(Level.WARNING, "Error while trying to retrieve content from the TSK .", ex);
-                }
-            }
-
-            // set the data on the bottom and show it
-            String recentString = new String();
-            if (bytesRead > 0) {
-                recentString = DataConversion.getString(t, bytesRead, 4);
-            }
-            String path = Util.getPath(recentString);
-            String name = Util.getFileName(path);
+            JLNK lnk = new JLnkParser(new ReadContentInputStream(fav), (int) fav.getSize()).parse();
+            String path = lnk.getBestPath();
             Long datetime = Recent.getCrtime();
-            String Tempdate = datetime.toString();
-            datetime = Long.valueOf(Tempdate);
             try {
                 Collection<BlackboardAttribute> bbattributes = new ArrayList<BlackboardAttribute>();
-                bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_PATH.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "Last Visited", path));
-                bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_NAME.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "", name));
+                bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_PATH.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "", path));
+                bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_NAME.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "", Util.getFileName(path)));
                 bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_PATH_ID.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "", Util.findID(path)));
                 bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_DATETIME.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "Date Created", datetime));
-                bbattributes.add(new BlackboardAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_TYPE.TSK_PROG_NAME.getTypeID(), "RecentActivity", "", "Windows Explorer"));
                 this.addArtifact(ARTIFACT_TYPE.TSK_RECENT_OBJECT, Recent, bbattributes);
             } catch (Exception ex) {
                 logger.log(Level.WARNING, "Error while trying to read into a sqlite db.{0}", ex);