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Clear Recent Documents & Run - 11/1/2007 3:01:47 AM   
  sudhir_shet

 

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      I wanna carry out the below 2 tasks using VB Script. Does anyone know how to do this with VBS without usinig SendKeys?
1) Clear Recent Documents (Taskbar properties -> Start Menu Tab -> Customize -> Clear)
2) Clear Program list in Start -> Run (Taskbar properties -> Start Menu Tab -> Start Menu -> Customize -> Clear List)


Thanks...

 
 
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RE: Clear Recent Documents & Run - 11/1/2007 3:21:48 AM   
  sudhir_shet

 

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Status: offline 		Is this command below correct for clearing recent documents?

%comspec% /c echo Y | del "%USERPROFILE%\Recent\*.*"

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RE: Clear Recent Documents & Run - 11/1/2007 4:08:03 AM   
  dm_4ever


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Status: offline 		I  believe that information is actually stored in the registry. Have you tried searching for that?

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RE: Clear Recent Documents & Run - 11/1/2007 4:45:12 AM   
  sudhir_shet

 

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To clear the program list in Run menu, we should delete the registry entries in te below path,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

But the only problem is that, this get cleared only after a logoff or restart!

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RE: Clear Recent Documents & Run - 11/1/2007 4:58:45 AM   
  Rischip


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Status: offline 		The run menu is here --> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
You need to delete all of the keys.

For the recent docs I fould this -> http://danrasmussen.org/software/clear_recent.vbs

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