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Clear the history of recently opened programs
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Clear the Start Menu open programs history
What is the Windows Start Menu recently opened programs list?
Every time you open a program from the Start Menu, the date and number of times you used it is stored in an encrypted database. If you don't clear UserAssist data, it can compromise your privacy and security and increase the number of entries in the registry slowing Windows down.
Using Clear All History you can easily clear the Start Menu open programs history (Windows Explorer UserAssist Data). Download Clear All History
Clear the Start Menu recently used programs
Windows keeps recently opened programs history under the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist
Learn how to clear the history of recently opened programs from the Start menu On Windows 7, Vista and XP.
Clear the Start Menu open programs history using Clear All History
Run Clear All History and select to clear Windows History.
Check the 'Clear Start Menu open programs history (Windows Explorer UserAssist Data)' option and then click Clear All.
To clear UserAssist automatically, turn on the Scheduler
How to clear recently used programs from the Start Menu (clear UserAssist) on Vista
The Windows Vista Start Menu contains a list of recently run programs which will be shown once the Start button is clicked. Whenever users run a program, Vista will keep tracks of this information and build a list of recently run programs and rank them according how frequently the program has been accessed and used. This recently and frequently run programs list provides users with easy to access shortcut to quickly open and run programs.
Generally, Windows Vista Start Menu contains 9 recently opened programs.
For the classic Start menu, to clear the recently opened programs history
Click the Start button and then select 'Settings'.
Next, select 'Taskbar and Start Menu Properties', open the 'Start menu' tab and click 'Customize'. Then click the 'Clear' button and then OK.
To disable the recently opened programs list, in the 'Privacy' area, remove the check mark for 'Store and display a list of recently opened programs'.
If you want to display recently opened programs list again, you can add recent programs back to the Start menu by checking 'Store and display a list of recently opened programs'. This will add recent programs to the Start menu run history.
How to clear recently used programs from the Windows Start Menu (clear UserAssist) on Windows XP
To clear Windows XP recently opened programs list, right-click on the Start button and select Properties.
Then open the 'Start menu' tab and click 'Customize'.
To clear recently run programs click the 'Clear' button, then click 'OK'.
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