"Recent" Folder Items

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Clay

Hello, is it possible to limit the number of files that
are stored in the "recent" folder? Any feedback will be
greatly appreciated.

Clay
 
MaxRecentDocs
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Data type Range Default value
REG_DWORD 0x0 - 0xFFFFFFFF shortcuts 0xF (15 shortcuts)

Description
Determines how many shortcuts the system can display in the Documents menu on the Start menu.

This entry stores the setting of the Maximum number of recent documents Group Policy. Group Policy adds this entry to the registry when you enable the Maximum number of recent documents policy. If you disable the policy or set it to Not configured, Group Policy deletes the entry from the registry and the system behaves as though the value is 15.

The Documents menu contains shortcuts to the non-program files the user has most recently opened.
 
As noted by Dave Candy, the number is tradionally set at 15 items. I
found this to be both useful and irritating, since it logged evry
trivial move I made, listing a lot of junk.

So I made a DOS batchf file:

c:
cd\cocuments and setting \<my log-in name>\recent
dir


That action, in a command prompt window, will list all the logged
entries. Then I DEL them ALL!, and we starts from scratch. You can also
delete then selectively ("prune"), using windows explorer, etc.

I keep the list pruned to just be the my real work items.

Prune daily.

Ang. C.
 
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