Clearing Visual Studio recent projects list
Posted by sharpstyle on March 24, 2007
I was in the process of recording a number of tutorials for SharpStyle Neutron and I wanted to make sure that my Visual Studio does not display a list of unrelated projects in the “recent projects list”.
After spending some time on Google, here is the path in the registry that stores that list:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
First, I was planning to write a VBS that iterates over entries and deletes them. Then I found that by providing “-” in front of the branch of “.reg” file, it actually deletes that branch.
Here is my “.reg” file that clears Visual Studio recent projects list. Copy into notepad and save as “.reg”. Double-click to update registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
~Mike
Dmitry Pavlov said
That is a great catch! Will use it for my purposes. Thanks a lot!
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Cristian Remy said
Thanks man!
Bobby said
In add-in form:
http://www.csharper.net/blog/mru_cleaner_v1_0_0_5___now_serving_your_file_cleaning_needs.aspx
sharpstyle said
Thanks for the add-in!
Michael Kennedy said
Hi,
I wrote a tool which will automate this for you. You might find it interesting.
http://www.michaelckennedy.net/blog/PermaLink,guid,418ddbe1-bba5-4341-afc8-9fcb78bba6f5.aspx
Best regards,
Michael
Manish Gangwal said
I always tried to do that.
Thanks a Lot!