If you are looking to browse Recent documents in Windows 7 explorer, then it will not be available where you found in Windows XP. It’s in different location like Vista. Find out the Windows 7 recent documents location with this small guide.
This is helpful to access Windows 7 drives over the network to find out recently opened documents and visited places in explorer.
Recent documents for Windows 7 is located under here,
Look at above location when you browse other users’ data over network or as separate disk.
Delete all files ( It is just shortcuts) from this location to clear your recent documents in Windows 7.
Thanks for this windows 7 tip.
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I’m found located folder recent items but i’m not found file recent documents, please help, i’m use windows 7 32bit, thank’s before.
I tried the above questions, perhaps you disable recent items (enabled do not keep history of recently opened documents), try to follow the steps – the steps below :
1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor.
2. In the left pane, click on the arrow to expand User Configuration > Administrative Templates, then click on Start Menu and Taskbar.
3. In the right pane, right click on Do not keep history of recently opened documents and click on Edit.
4. Select Not Configured or Disabled.
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WTF? This is Windows 7? You take all the logical useful functions from previous systems and bury them where no one will ever use them? Pure genius! What’s next, remove the start button and replace it with command line? Best of luck with your crappy OS. Mac is about 100 years ahead of you guys. You can try to copy them but you still just don’t get it and you never will.
“What’s next, remove the start button”
I guess they read your comment when they developed Windows 8… =)
Guaranteed solution to this problem:
Upgrade your Windows 7 to Mac OSX and you won’t need to worry about these silly problems.
Time is money people!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only a monkey can’t find recent documents on their desktop. Where is the folder that stores recent shortcuts and .wmv files
Open “start’ menu
Right-click and select ‘property’
Select the tab ‘start menu’
Select ‘customize’
Enable the option ‘display recent items’
Adjust the number of items you want to display (10 by default)
in the Privacy section (still on the ‘start menu’ tab) activate ‘Store and display recently opened items…’
And the recent items folder is located:
C:\Users\%YOURNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows
(where %YOURNAME% is the account name)
Great tip, man. Thanks lots.
SIMPLE METHOD:
Type “recent” (without quotes) in ‘run’ and press enter. A window will appear that contains recently accessed items.
You can access ‘run’ by pressing window button+r.
I can find the recent items list but there are never any items in the list. It never gets populated.
I have done all these things listed in this forum but it does not work. I even tried to paste a shortcut into that recent items folder.