How to do it...

There are various possible uses for the visualization tool, so we will go through them one at a time:

  1. Firstly, you can change the theme of FTK should you wish to do so. You can do this by going to CaseManager|Tools|Preferences in FTK, which will then open up a box which lists several options. These correspond closely to the options that used to be available in older versions of Windows, so it should be familiar to many.
  2. One of the most useful items in the visualization toolset is the timeline feature, which allows a user to view actions on a device over a specific time period.
    1. First you must tell FTK which dates you want to focus on. You can do this by selecting a range of dates in the timeline section.
    2. Once your date range ...

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