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How to: Remove Items from the Recent Projects List on the Start Page 

Visual Studio 2005

The Recent Projects list on the Start Page automatically displays the last six solutions you edited, from newest to oldest. Use this procedure to remove solutions that you do not want to appear in this list.

To remove items from the Recent Projects list

  1. Start Windows Explorer and then find the location where your solutions are stored.

    For example, \...\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\

    NoteNote

    Visual Studio lists this information in the Visual Studio projects location text box on the General, Projects and Solutions, Options Dialog Box.

  2. Select the solutions you do not want to appear in Recent Projects and move these to another location.

    For example, \...\Visual Studio 2005\

  3. Start Visual Studio.

  4. In Recent Projects on the Start Page, click a solution that you moved from the default directory.

    The message box that appears indicates that the project you selected cannot be opened and prompts you to remove the project from the list.

  5. Click Yes.

    You now can move the project back to the original location on disk if you choose. Visual Studio will not display the solution in the Recent Projects list until the next time you open the solution.

  6. Repeat steps 4-5 for each solution you moved.

    If you want to re-add a solution to the Recent Projects list, open the project from the File menu.

See Also

Reference

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Other Resources

Customizing the Start Page

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If you hover your mouse over any of the projects in your Recent Projects list the full path to that Solution/Project will be displayed in the status area at the bottom, left of the VS window. You can then go to that location in Windows Explorer and temporarily rename the folder (I just add an 'x' at the beginning of the name), return to VS and try to open the project, respond to the dialog that is displayed to say you don't want to see the project again and then return to the folder in Explorer to 'unname' the folder.

You may think you found the folder but you need to go where VS thinks it is.
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First off, it would have been more helpful if the article had told you where to find the Projects folder. It may come as a surprise to MS, but most developers don't actually keep all their stuff in the folders VS creates. We create a folder for a project, which may include all sorts of stuff apart from the VS files, and work in there. I never use the folders that VS creates.

Anyway, having found the folder, it didn't list ANY of the projects showing in my "recent projects" list on the start page. What do I do now?
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Removing items using the registry

To be much more efficient, you can run regedit and remove the items stored in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

Bear in mind that if you only want to remove a subset of items, you'll have to reorganize the list to maintain the proper sequence (no numbers skipped).

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Hiding items from the Start Page MRU list
If you wish to permanently hide items from the MRU list on the startpage, see the help topic at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kcli/html/w2kcli_chapter4.asp and search for the word NoRecentDocsHistory.
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