My Clear Recent Itemis Gone

[Greg]

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?

 

[dean-dean]

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]

Much thanks. That looks to be it.

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).