Vista - Recent Items list

Pluckaduckie · 01-17-2009

Can anyone help please? My Recent Items list in Start shows on audio and video files. How can I get it to reveal other recently accessed documents?

**Brink** · 01-17-2009

Hello Pluckaduckie, and welcome to Vista Forums.

That will only show you a limited amout of the most recently opened files. You can type shell:recent in the Start Menu search line and press Enter to open the Recent folder to see all of your recent items.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

**richc46** · 01-17-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Pluckaduckie

Can anyone help please? My Recent Items list in Start shows on audio and video files. How can I get it to reveal other recently accessed documents?

Another method, which you may or not prefer. Go to control panel, personalize, task bar and start menu (bottom left), start menu, customize. You can pick the number of items that you want to show.

I just tried the method sugested by Brink. It shows many more items and is definitive. The choice is yours.

Pluckaduckie · 01-18-2009

Thanks for the great tips! I've tried them both and works well. No other way of getting eg Word documents or Excel files onto the Start/Recent Items list?

**richc46** · 01-18-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Pluckaduckie

Thanks for the great tips! I've tried them both and works well. No other way of getting eg Word documents or Excel files onto the Start/Recent Items list?

The best you could do, as far as I know, is to have the files appear on the desktop.

Pluckaduckie · 01-18-2009

Hmmm... thanks for the suggestion!

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01-17-2009	#2 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 25,942 posts	Re: Recent Items list Hello Pluckaduckie, and welcome to Vista Forums. That will only show you a limited amout of the most recently opened files. You can type shell:recent in the Start Menu search line and press Enter to open the Recent folder to see all of your recent items. Hope this helps, Shawn
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01-17-2009	#3 (permalink)
richc46 Home Premium 64bit SP2 67 posts	Re: Recent Items list Quote: Originally Posted by Pluckaduckie Can anyone help please? My Recent Items list in Start shows on audio and video files. How can I get it to reveal other recently accessed documents? Another method, which you may or not prefer. Go to control panel, personalize, task bar and start menu (bottom left), start menu, customize. You can pick the number of items that you want to show. I just tried the method sugested by Brink. It shows many more items and is definitive. The choice is yours.
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01-18-2009	#4 (permalink)
Pluckaduckie vista home premium 3 posts	Re: Recent Items list Thanks for the great tips! I've tried them both and works well. No other way of getting eg Word documents or Excel files onto the Start/Recent Items list?
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01-18-2009	#5 (permalink)
richc46 Home Premium 64bit SP2 67 posts	Re: Recent Items list Quote: Originally Posted by Pluckaduckie Thanks for the great tips! I've tried them both and works well. No other way of getting eg Word documents or Excel files onto the Start/Recent Items list? The best you could do, as far as I know, is to have the files appear on the desktop. Last edited by richc46; 01-18-2009 at 04:17 AM.. Reason: Make technical corrections
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01-18-2009	#6 (permalink)
Pluckaduckie vista home premium 3 posts	Re: Recent Items list Hmmm... thanks for the suggestion!
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