Tweak Library – Clear the recently accessed documents list.

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Clear the recently accessed documents list.

This setting enables you to delete the documents in "Recent Documents" folder.

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

Description:

The documents, images, programs, or music files you did work on very recently, are displayed by “Recent Documents” as they are stored by Windows in most recently used files. Normally, the maximum number of files stored is 15 but this can be changed to suit your requirement.

This setting enables you to clear all these documents. This can be done through some settings in the Windows registry.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. When in “RecentDocs” folder, select all the values in the right-pane and press delete. It will delete the records of all recently accessed documents.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
The “Recent Documents” folder can be accessed in new Start menu 2-panel display.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

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

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Data Type :

REG_BINARY (Binary Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

0 to MRUListEx and ViewStream

Value Action :

Deleted

Steps ScreenShots:

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

The "Recent Documents" list is empty after the changes have been made in the registry.

The "Recent Documents" list shows the recently visited documents.

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\RecentDocs\] key, select all the values from 0 to MRUListEx and ViewStream, right-click and click on "Delete".