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Windows 7 clear run history

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tim23x

September 11, 2010 1:44:37 PM

Hello,

I'm running Windows 7 Professional and I'd like to clear my run history. I've tried ccleaner and MRUblaster, also manual editing of the registry all to no avail.

When I start the "run" window and type in the first letter of a command, a huge list of files or web addresses starting with that letter appears, i.e. for 'c':

Does anyone know how to clear this history? I don't even know what it's properly called.

Thanks in advance,

Tim

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number13

September 13, 2010 1:25:16 AM

try this, http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mrublaster.html

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tim23x

September 13, 2010 12:05:24 PM

Thanks for the response - as I say, I've already tried MRUblaster and ccleaner.

Cheers anyway.

Tim

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tim23x

September 13, 2010 1:09:22 PM

...but the problem is on my laptop, which I haven't rebooted since I ran them. Just read the small print and re-run ccleaner, followed by a reboot. That's done the trick.

Cheers,

Tim

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tim23x

September 18, 2010 4:47:27 PM

...and now the history (the old one which I cleaned with ccleaner) is back again, like some sort of zombie data. Can anyone help? Any idea what the file that stores this data is called, even?

cheers,

Tim

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Sophay Aung

June 28, 2011 1:39:47 PM

Right click on the desktop > personalize > Taskbar and Start Menu >Start Menu tab > store and display recently opened programs in the start menu
select off > Apply > store and display recently opened programs in the start menu select on >Apply > ok
That's all.
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