In 2009 the recent drawing files list has drastically been improved over earlier versions of AutoCAD. Click on the big M to open the menu browser and stop your cursor over the Recent Documents listing at the bottom of the list. The default format is to list files with a small icon to the left. In the top right corner of the browser there is a small icon that looks like two pieces of paper on top of each other. Click on this icon to expand and select large images

The larger images appear and if you hover your mouse over one of these larger images for more than a second or two, an evan larger image appears and more of the properties of the file are presented.