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Disable Recent Items in Jump Lists for Certain Programs

Disable Recent Items in Jump Lists for Certain Programs

Is there any way to turn off the recent items in the jumplists of specific programs in Windows 7? This feature is useful on some programs (like my text editor) but there are other programs that I don't need everyone to see what I've opened recently (like my video player). I've searched around for a solution to this and I've found two "solutions":

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Guest [Entry]

If nothing else works, you might try setting up different accounts per user on the machine.
Guest [Entry]

I did this for folders and IE recent items. I diabled jump lists. Opened web sites I use frequently and pinned them to the task bar icon. Did the same for folders. Then I turned off recent items. Right click on IE and I still see the pinned items. Same for folders. When I check recent documents nothing is listed as the recent items is turned off. Half assed work around but useful for me in a limited way.
Guest [Entry]

"This isn't exactly what you want, but to disable all jump lists see below. Jump lists seem pretty useless to me, especially since it shows such limited data, doesn't even give you the path of files. Like most things in Windows they seem to think the less info the better... I for one think the more info the better.

To disable all jump lists right click on the start menu where there is no icon, then click properties, click the ""Start Menu"" tab then click the ""Customize"" button. On the lower right you will see the option ""Number of items to display in Jump List"", change it to 0."