Clear Recent Project list or File list from Visual Studio .Net Start Page
Have you ever wanted to clear or remove unwanted items from your "Recent Projects" list on your Visual Studio 2008/2005 startup page?
Here is an nice tip on how to clear the "Recent Project" list:
Close Visual Studio (if its open)
GOTO > Start > Run > RegEdit
GOTO > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\ProjectMRUList
remove unnecessary items from list.
Similarly repeat the steps for FileMRuList
GOTO > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\FileMRUList
remove unnecessary items from list.
To Clear the Find and Replace List
GOTO > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<version>\Find
remove unnecessary items from list.
Another Simple way is,
Create one Text file "Clear.txt" and add below contents in it
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList]
Save and Close the file and rename is as "Clear.reg"; that is Registry file. Double Click to Run the file, this will clear the "Recent Project List" on your Visual Studio 2005 Startup Page. You can add entries for "Recent File List" and "Find and Replace List" in this same .reg file.