Hi Barry. Are things still not working? Try opening a couple text
documents, for example. I deleted my own Recent Items folder, twice
actually, to see if I could reproduce your problem, and things always worked
with the new folder created. I did have to Log Off and back On to have the
Recent Items show up in the Start Menu.
Press the Windows key + the R key on your keyboard. When the Run box pops
up, Copy and Paste this:
%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\desktop.ini
Click OK. That should bring up Notepad. The text written should look like
this:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21797
InfoTip=@shell32,dll,-12692
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-117
CLSID={0C39A5CF-1A7A-40C8-BA74-8900E6DF5FCD}
Does your desktop.ini for the Recent Items folder look like that?