Tweak Library – Clear Run history in Start menu.

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Clear Run history in Start menu.

This setting enables you to clear the list of commands used through "Run" command.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

The Run command in the Start menu is a very useful to run a program, open a document, folder or website. This setting lets you clear the list of most recent commands that have been used. These are stored there by Windows. Each command is stored as individual registry value within the registry key.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. Here, delete all String values except "Default" in right panel.

After restart or logoff, changes take effect.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

All values in the list

Value Action :

Deleted

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

The list of previous commands used in the "Run" is not visible after the changes have been made in the registry.

The list of previous commands used in the "Run" is visible.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Next, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU\] key, select the String values "a, b, c, d to MRUList", right-click and click on "Delete".