Can't find my Photoshop preferences file

I KNOW this is stupid, but on Windows 7, 64-bit, with all the stuff turned on to show me hidden files and system files and everything, Photoshop CS6 (13.0.1?), and Lightroom 4.3
I'm trying to follow the advice that everything I do in Photoshop should be backed up somewhere other than as part of Photoshop, I periodically move all the stuff in
the Users/<me>/AppData/Roaming/Adobe...  folders to a backup drive...  And, by and large, I can find and figure out what stuff is.
But, I can't find my preferences file.  I went to the Adobe help, and it says:
General settings
Adobe Photoshop CS6 Prefs.psp (32-bit version)
Adobe Photoshop X64 CS6 Prefs.psp (64-bit version)
Users/[user name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6/Adobe Photoshop CS6 Settings
I don't have ANYTHING called "Prefs.psp" in the Users stuff.  As near as I can tell, I don't have anything called Prefs.psp ANYWHERE on the disk.. 
Do I get to pick where this file gets put?  Could I have put it somewhere ELSE?  Or, is it actually named something else?
I wouldn't be much concerned about his, but my latest stupid human trick (we won't go into that please) has convinced me I should do a better job of making sure I can restore Photoshop and Lightroom in the event of a "small error in judgement"

Thanks Noel.  It's nice to know that at least THIS time, I'm not crazy..........
As far as backups, I've got a good setup, EXCEPT for the system backup...  I'm using Syncback to back up everything but the O/S, and I've recently added a backup that takes everything from the system except the Windows folder tree...  So, every night at 1 a.m. everything gets backed up to internal backup drives and a large external backup drive. 
What I'll do is add an (hopefully) automated Windows Backup to the other backups.  Given the appallingly stupid things I periodically do I figure I need suspenders and a belt.

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