Acorn application guide

Artefact Guide

The guide helps turn a broad question into a source checklist. It supports examination planning; it does not itself process the evidence.

Reference guide

Which recorded sources might help answer this examination question?

Start with

The application's reference catalogue of artefact locations, uses and related tooling.

What you can take away

A reference view of potential sources, locations and related tools.

The artefact catalogue groups Windows sources with their locations, potential uses and linked tooling. It supports planning a focused examination.

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A practical starting point

How the workflow fits together.

Start with the operating system and behaviour being investigated.
Review candidate artefact locations and their possible evidential uses.
Check whether those sources exist in the actual collection before choosing a tool.

Useful next steps

Start with your requirements

Bring a sample question.

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About the screenshots and illustrations

Application screens are selected from the September 2026 Acorn screenshot pack. Captions distinguish native setup views, constructed training records and public-corpus results. They are not private client cases, and a displayed control does not establish that every operation was completed.

Relevant public sources include DeepBlueCLI training event logs and Plaso test data. Check the relevant source terms before redistributing an underlying dataset.

Workspace scenes and sector mascot variants are generated illustrations. They do not show actual police, judicial, military or university deployments or endorsements. The original Squirrel Forensics identity is retained.