Saturday, September 20, 2008

How to clear "Recent Projects" in Visual Studio

Well, to clear list of projects in "Recent Projects" in start
page of Visual Studio simply just we need to clear something
in registry.

1- Run registry editor in Windows:
Start->Run->RegEdit

2- Goto the following area in registry file:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
"8.0" is for Visual Studio 2005, depend on the Visual Studio version
which you installed, this number can be something else.

3- Remove any one of unnecessary values in above area, the key value
name starts with "file" like: file1, file2, ...

Another solution:
1- Add the following lines in a text file and save it in any name which you
like with ".reg" extention:
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
"8.0" is for Visual Studio 2005, depend on the Visual Studio version
which you installed, this number can be something else.

2- Anytime which you like to clear the list of projects in "Recent Projects",
double click on the created .reg file.
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