If you've used a 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, or if 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, in the Start Search box:
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).
"compTMan" <compTMan.2ws8c6@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:compTMan.2ws8c6@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...
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> I also have the same problem, however I have noticed that my Admin. user
> account "Recent Items" area does update properly. Only my standard user
> accts. don't update the Recent Items area. I've found that by going to
> the folder identified by Pengalo above
> (C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent) my Admin.
> user ID has a "Recent Items" file while my other user ID's don't have
> this file. So that's the issue. The question is how do we correct it?
> I could copy the file from Admin. and paste it in one of the user ID's
> to see if that helps but I think there should also be some Registry
> changes required to get it to be used properly.
>
>
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> compTMan