Turn On or Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10

Brink · 17 Feb 2016

Fred22 said:

I found a tutorial on You tube and did just what you suggested...worked like a charm. Thanks. I seem to remember you from the Vista forum. Were you there?

Hello Fred, and welcome to Ten Forums. :)

Yep, I'm from www.vistax64.com as well. It's good to see you here.

Fred22 · 17 Feb 2016

Thanks...glad you're here. You helped me out a lot w/Vista. I still have the HP Pavilion running Vista, but got a new laptop w/Win10. Thanks again.

jonnyOn7 · 25 Feb 2016

Hi Brink, I'm looking @ .chm, trying to get hh.exe (the built-in chm viewer) to remember recent (.chm) docs, with jumplist.... just like notepad does with .txt (but not with .reg grrr)

It looks like this isn't possible, and that (hopefully) a substitute-app is the best workaround....

anyone got any ideas if notepad (& others?) can be modded to remember all opened files?

I can pin hh.exe to start menu, but it has no recent, unlike notepad, paint, even control panel...

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Reluctant to rem hh.exe from HostApps @ HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileAssociation, doubt it'll have the desired magical effect of making .chm's pinnable..

Brink · 25 Feb 2016

Hello Jonny,

I'm not aware of a way to have jump lists available for items you "Pin to Start".

pascalwil · 17 Sep 2016

As title says instead of opening the folder a click on a Frequent places folder in File Explorer runs takeownership command.
Weird. I have no clue on how to get it to default behavior ie opening the folder
Thanks to the tuto I can clear and even prevent the Frequent places to fill in but I'd rather have it working properly.
Begging for help. Thanks

Edit
Only when click done from File Explorer Frequent places in taskbar
OK when done from File in File Explorer menu then folder opens
In case it helps to point to the right registry key.

Cheers

Brink · 25 Sep 2018

Tutorial updated to add Option 3 and 4 to set Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar via group policy.

Hemimax · 06 Oct 2018

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I am not getting the Edge jump list with Top sites yet mine just shows everything below Tasks, all my other jump lists work fine.

Brink · 06 Oct 2018

Hello @Hemimax,

Have you already updated to the Windows 10 October 2018 Update version 1809?

If you have, do they show on your "New Tab" page in Microsoft Edge?

Hemimax · 06 Oct 2018

Hi Brink,
Sorry I misunderstood, thought it would show recent windows/tabs that had opened in Edge on the taskbar like it does for other apps. But it does not show Top Sites on the Edge taskbar icon.

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Did 1809 last night and was looking for all the new stuff.

Brink · 06 Oct 2018

You're not mistaken. "Top sites" would be the recent/frequent for Edge.

My jump list for Edge is currently showing "Top sites", so it may take a bit longer for it to show up in your list depending on how much you use Edge.

See your top sites in the Jump List: You can now see your top sites in the Jump List on the Windows taskbar or Start menu. Just right-click the Microsoft Edge icon to see a list of your most-visited sites and pin the ones that matter most to you. Right-click on any entry to remove it from the list.

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Turn On or Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10

Click on a Frequent places folder in File Explorer runs takeownership