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Clear your Visual Studio Recent projects list

If you do a lot of tinkering in VS2005 and you want to clear down your recent projects list, this can be easily achieved by some simple registry editing

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

You will find a list of files in this area of the registry, simply delete the entries.

If you break the numbering you will need to renumber the entries after the one you have removed or the list will be truncated at that point.

Hope this helps you tidy up your recent projects

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Author : Paul Marshall
Published : 15 June 2007

A self confessed Microsoft bigot, Paul loves all Microsoft products with a particular fondness for SQL Server. Paul is currently focusing on Web 2.0 patterns and practices and is always looking for better ways of doing things. I love the .net platform, and I find it to be the most productive toolset I have used to date.

Comments

zhangtai said:

Thanks a lot!!! this really helps

July 24, 2007 - 4:00 AM

Juan said:

Nice. Thanks a lot!

August 08, 2007 - 8:24 PM

Andrew said:

Shot - Always wanted to know how to do that... :)

April 09, 2008 - 11:17 AM

barh said:

        thanks man        
April 11, 2008 - 6:37 PM

Masood said:

is this possible to extent the number of projects in the list?

September 23, 2008 - 5:16 PM

marshp3 said:

yeah, in VS do the following

Tools -> Options

on the General Node of the Environment root node, increase the numbers in the Recent files group of settings...

Job done

September 23, 2008 - 10:04 PM

rohini said:

Thanks It works :)

October 06, 2008 - 7:36 AM

Drew said:

Nice one. Very handy

March 17, 2009 - 3:57 PM

bigwes_ga said:

suweet! works perfectly. thanks.

July 27, 2009 - 1:57 PM

Arul said:

Thanks a lot.............

August 19, 2009 - 7:05 AM

Al said:

Awesome

October 22, 2009 - 10:00 AM

S'phiwo said:

I like it, it works

November 25, 2009 - 12:01 PM

murali katta said:

        thanks a lot !
December 02, 2009 - 10:06 AM

Rik said:

Works like a charm!

March 23, 2010 - 3:02 PM

AZ said:

Thanx alot party

August 18, 2010 - 5:54 AM

Shahzad Ali said:

It works. Thanks

September 07, 2010 - 8:52 AM

Rajagopalan said:

Thanks a lot

October 31, 2010 - 10:06 AM

bru said:

Also works on VS2008

February 04, 2011 - 5:08 PM

Ali Sefa SAHIN said:

Thanks...

March 21, 2011 - 2:26 PM

Amit said:

Thanks it works...

If the entry doesn't exist for 8.0 then can be found in 9.0 or depending upon the product version.

March 22, 2011 - 11:00 AM

Rahul Shandilya said:

Thank a lot Sir...

April 15, 2011 - 12:04 PM

Shahzad Ali said:

Thanks. Working fine

May 18, 2011 - 9:47 PM

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