Delete recent files history on restart/shutdown (Windows 11) ?

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• Sunday at 3:31 PM

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I use a recent files history for convenience, but I'd like it to be automatically deleted when shutting down or restarting the system, so that it's empty the next time I load up Windows.

Any help on how to achieve this is appreciated. :)

OS: Windows 11 (24H2)

 

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• Sunday at 3:35 PM

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babayaga said:

I use a recent files history for convenience, but I'd like it to be automatically deleted when shutting down or restarting the system, so that it's empty the next time I load up Windows.

Any help on how to achieve this is appreciated. :)

OS: Windows 11 (24H2)

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save the .bat from there and set it to run at startup

 

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I wonder if there is a way to do it through the Group Policy Editor or a Registry setting ? Anyone ?

I'm not going into yet another W10/11 hate rant, but man, this was so trivial back in XP and 7.

 

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Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"ClearRecentDocsOnExit"=dword:00000001

 

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