Remove Recent Projects, Solutions, Recent Files, Find and Replace entries from Visual Studio.

This article will show how to remove Recent Projects, Solutions, Recent Files, Find and Replace entries from Visual Studio.

This article will show how to remove Recent Projects, Solutions, Recent Files, Find and Replace entries from Visual Studio.

Introduction

After opening the Visual Studio, the left hand side (of the Start Page) will have listed the projects that you have worked on recently as shortcut links. 

Also, from menu File\Recent Files or Recent Projects and Solutions will be a list of your recent web pages and solutions. 

If you do Crtl + F or Crtl + H then that shows the recent searches and replaced entries. So, how will we remove these entries?

                                                                          

Getting Started

There are a couple of ways to do the clean up from Visual Studio.

1.       By changing the values of Environment\General\Recent File's settings from menu Tools\Options.  

     The default value is one for both options. But this will not actually remove the recent files from Visual Studio.

     These settings will just hide the other entries and show only the latest one.

                                       

2.      The other way is by editing the registry entries to clear the values; this will permanently delete the selected entries. 

     Open the registry from Run window by typing regedit. Or, Start\All Programs\ Microsoft Visual Studio 2010\Remote Registry Editor. 

     Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\

        This will list different Visual Studio versions available on your system. Select the version you are using from the followiong list.

10.0 For Visual Studio 2010.

9.0 For Visual Studio 2008.

8.0 For Visual Studio 2005. Etc.

 

                        

i.            Remove Recent Projects.

                          Navigate to node ProjectMRUList; this will list recent projects on the right side of the window panel. Select all files and delete the entries.

                        

                                

ii.            Remove Recent Files.

                         Navigate to node FileMRUList, this will list recent web files and solutions on right side of window panel. Select all files and delete the entries.

                        

                               

iii.            Remove Find and Replace texts.

                          Navigate to node Find, this will list recent Find and Replace entries on right side of window panel. 

               Here, select entries from Find to Find9 and Replace to Replace0 only and delete. 

               Other entries are settings, so be careful while deleting.

              

Conclusion

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