Filtering out entries in My Recent Documents

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Patrick Ryan

How can you keep entries with certain file types from
showing in My Recent Documents? I'm guessing there is a
Registry tweak involved. I'm OK with that. Thanks.

Pat Ryan
 
I think that it should be possible to have either an opt-in list for file
extensions, or an opt-out list for file extensions in the MRU listing. I
submitted this to MSFT a while back myself. No word on resolution yet - keep
your fingers crossed...
 
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I think that it should be possible to have either an opt- in list for file
extensions, or an opt-out list for file extensions in the MRU listing. I
submitted this to MSFT a while back myself. No word on resolution yet - keep
your fingers crossed...

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I do software development. I will open a particular
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project file. This file references a number of unit files
(generally, one per screen in the app). I never need to
open a unit file separately, only the project file.
However, the recent documents lists every unit file I have
worked with rendering it useless. If I can tell recent
documents to ignore unit files (*.pas), things would be
great.

Pat Ryan
 
The feature has been built in for years.

Add 0x00100000 to the editflags for the file association.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from EditFlags and AND it with the 0x00100000.

a.. Put 0x00100000 into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from EditFlags (in byte order reversed)
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as first entered, if it's not set it will return 0
 
Amazing knowledge, David!!!!!! You must be a programmer?
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I'm now referring to "Creating a File Association" > FTA_NoRecentDocs
0x00100000
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The feature has been built in for years.

Add 0x00100000 to the editflags for the file association.

To use Windows Calculator take the value from EditFlags and AND it with the
0x00100000.

a.. Put 0x00100000 into Calculator in Hex mode
b.. Press AND
c.. Take the value from from EditFlags (in byte order reversed)
d.. If it is set it will return the same value as first entered, if it's
not set it will return 0
 
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