Lost documents... Can i get them back?

Hi Guys
I am hoping someone can help me and all is not lost.
I was using Illustrator CS5 on Windows, with a number of documents open when I had to leave my office to deal with a screaming daughter. I was then a little distracted before I managed to get back to my laptop. To my horror my laptop had installed some updates and automatically restarted. And you guessed it my files were gone. I know I know I should have been periodically saving them as I worked on them and stupidly enough I had with one but not the others.
I quickly checked the recycling bin to see if a back copy was there as I had heard that this is sometimes the case. I did find one document that was modified at the correct time and date but with some random name. I tried restoring it to find out what it was and now have no idea where it has been restored to.
Where would it be? Could this be the document I am looking for? If not can I get them back?
Is there away via Illustrator to bring up recently unsaved documents? I know you can do this through recent documents in the File drop down menu but this only has documents that I saved in it. I know this is unlikely but I still have hope or should I say I am praying.
Please tell me there is hope.
Thanks for your time.

No. When nothing was saved, there's nothing to restore - all your documents only ever existed in their modified state RAM, not on your harddrive and AI doesn't do auto-saves nor does it any longer produce crash recovery files as it did in older versions before CS or so. If there are any randomly named AI files, then they were produced by the operating system, but that mustn't mean they are actually usable. They could merely be memory dumps of the last active state, not structured data files. Hopeless case for the most part and before wasting time trying to search something that doesn't exist you better simply start over...
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