Vista - Vista "Recent Items" not working

I'm running Vista Ultimate and the "Recent Items" menu under "Start" is not
working, nor has it ever worked. Both "store recently opened files" and
"store recently opened programs" is checked under start menu properties,
however the list remains empty.

Any help would be appreciated.
Chad Feltenberger

Hi Chad,

Take a look at the "How to Fix Recent Programs Not Being Remembered" section at this link. I believe this will get the Recent Items to work for you.

Recent Items List

Shawn

Good information, however that did not work. My registry already contained
the information that it had you add.

Any other ideas? This is very frustrating.

"brink" wrote:

>
> Chad Feltenberger;427207 Wrote:
> > I'm running Vista Ultimate and the "Recent Items" menu under "Start" is
> > not
> > working, nor has it ever worked. Both "store recently opened files" and
> > "store recently opened programs" is checked under start menu
> > properties,
> > however the list remains empty.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Chad Feltenberger
>
> Hi Chad,
>
> Take a look at the "How to Fix Recent Programs Not Being Remembered"
> section at this link. I believe this will get the Recent Items to work
> for you.
>
> Recent Items List
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> _http://www.Vistax64.com (\"http://www.Vistax64.com\")_
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

Chad,

The only other thing I know is to make sure that the number of Recent Programs to show in the list is at least set to 5 in that section. I did hear that sometimes a 3rd party program that adds any thing to the right click context menu can sometimes cause problems with this. If you installed or changed any settings before this happened, you might try uninstalling or undo the settings changes to test.

If this fails, you might do a System Restore to a rstore point that it did work. Here's how if you need it.

System Restore - How to

Hope this helps,
Shawn