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