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Change the Number of Recent Items Shown on Your Vista Start Menu

January 12, 2008

It is possible to change the number of documents recorded in the Recent Items menu. By default, the number documents shown in the Recent Items menu is 10. You can increase this with a registry tweak.

It is this menu below in the example you will be changing. (The example has been made to 1 for this illustration).

Change the Number of Recent Items Shown on Your Vista Start Menu

Manual Registry Tweak

  • 1.Through the “Start Menu Search Box”, open up regidit.exe.
  • 2.Scroll down to this key (create it if it does not exist):
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

    Change the Number of Recent Items Shown on Your Vista Start Menu

  • 3.In the right-hand pane, add a new DWORD 32-bit value and name it “MaxRecentDocs”.
  • 4.Double-click on it to open it.

Before you can set the new value you need to change Base to “Decimal”. Then the value can be changed to anything you want.

  • 5. Enter this new value into the “Value data” field.
    Change the Number of Recent Items Shown on Your Vista Start Menu

    • Tip: You may not want too huge a number. 20 is very reasonable.

    Written by Vlad · Filed Under Windows Vista How To 

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