Comments on: Disable Recent Documents Listing in Registry

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:48:16 +0000

Here’s a little trick to find out exactly where Windows places information in your registry in case the registry key name is different on your machine, like it was in mine…

1. Rename a JPG file to a very unique name… Like “WhereDoesWindowsListThings.jpg”, as an example.

2. Open the file in Photo Editor or something similar and then close it.

3. Open the Registry Editor and search for that exact file name.

You’ll find where the keys are without finding dozens of other entries with similar names.

After that you can just open the keys and delete the data or write a small script to do it for you from a desktop shortcut.

By: christina rackard

christina rackard — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:54:38 +0000

am so lost i have 2 of the same thing in the recent documents,how can i delite just one so will not have so many?

By: Jersey Bob

Jersey Bob — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:08:13 +0000

Thanks for the tip, but that registry key didn’t have the list. But this one did:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\File MRU

By: rob

rob — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:53:56 +0000

seen on another web site:

to clear the list (checked with regedit)

* right click on the Taskbar and pick Properties
* click the Start Menu tab
* click Customize… button
* click the Advanced tab
* uncheck “List my most recently opened documents” and use the Clear List button