Restoring a single file from a File Vault in time machine

I need to restore a single preference file from the TIme Machine.
I use FileVault and when I go more than 1 day back, all I have is a single file (user.sparsebundle)
How do I get to individual files?
Thanks

see the following link for instructions
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007111404402514&query=time%2Bmachi ne%2Bfilevault

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Um, well looky here :)
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/cf6abdeb-a517-424c-bbef-050bee22a658/remoteapp-error-when-launching-dashboard-from-client-pc?forum=winserveressentials
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PS: Has nothing to do with the price of eggs, but interesting ?
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles-tutorials/netgeneral/host-remoteapps-windows-pcs-part1.html

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