Comments on: Vista: Clear Recent Items

By: abdul

abdul — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:49:08 +0000

It Worked, thanks soo much bro !!!

By: Jason5670

Jason5670 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:27:00 +0000

that just doesnt work why is this so hard to delete old file names in the drop down box

By: Wiqarali

Wiqarali — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:37:00 +0000

The better way would be to change your menu style to classic , then go to properties and customize and clear the items history,

after that you can again switch to new menu style while the list will be cleared.

By: mixmaster

mixmaster — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:54:00 +0000

Thanks Drew….that worked, what I did was uncheck both boxes and clicked apply then the “recent” was gone, then I went back and re-checked them, which brought the recent back and it was empty at that point.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:59:00 +0000

right click on the bottom and go to properties then start menu and at the bottom it says privacy and gives you to options to unclick “store and display a list of recently opened files”

By: Keill Randor

Keill Randor — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 07:09:00 +0000

You can delete if you hover the mouse over the file that you want to delete – it should go light blue. Then press Ctrl + Del. You can use the cursor keys to move up and down the file list.

By: Ccc221

Ccc221 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:51:00 +0000

You can switch the start menu to the classic view as in XP by right clicking on a blank space which gives you properties…click on properties, click on start menu, select classic…apply…click on customize…clear records option is there, as before.

By: Helpful Anon

Helpful Anon — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:11:00 +0000

If you right click and click open, you can select them all and delete them that way.

By: divyang

divyang — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:52:00 +0000

i can’t get “clear recent items” by right clicking recent items.

By: Ticked off at Vista

Ticked off at Vista — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:45:00 +0000

Ditto for me, I don’t get a drop down list. Anyone know where the folder is that stores these so I can just delete everything from it like I used to in XP?