My Clear Recent Itemis Gone

The abitlity to clear the documents feature has disapeared when i right
click on the recent items list. Anywhere in the registry that i can restore
this?

If you've used 3rd party cleaner, it may have deleted the desktop.ini in
the Recent Items folder. If you navigate to C:\Users\(Your
Name)AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows, does the Recent Items folder have a
special icon? If it doesn't, and only shows the generic manila one, and the
folder is just called Recent (without the word Items), right-click on the
Recent folder and choose Delete. Log Off and then Log On. Open your Start
Menu and type:

shell:recent

Press Enter. This should restore the folder with the correct desktop.ini,
which will then restore the right-click context menu item "Clear Recent
Items List". (Right-click inside the Recent Items folder that pops up to
test that, after having typed shell:recent).

"Greg" <> wrote in message
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> The abitlity to clear the documents feature has disapeared when i right
> click on the recent items list. Anywhere in the registry that i can
> restore this?
>

Much thanks. That looks to be it.


"dean-dean" <dean-> wrote in message
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> If you've used 3rd party cleaner, it may have deleted the desktop.ini in
> the Recent Items folder. If you navigate to C:\Users\(Your
> Name)AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows, does the Recent Items folder have
> a
> special icon? If it doesn't, and only shows the generic manila one, and
> the
> folder is just called Recent (without the word Items), right-click on the
> Recent folder and choose Delete. Log Off and then Log On. Open your
> Start
> Menu and type:
>
> shell:recent
>
> Press Enter. This should restore the folder with the correct desktop.ini,
> which will then restore the right-click context menu item "Clear Recent
> Items List". (Right-click inside the Recent Items folder that pops up to
> test that, after having typed shell:recent).
>
> "Greg" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> The abitlity to clear the documents feature has disapeared when i right
>> click on the recent items list. Anywhere in the registry that i can
>> restore this?
>>
>