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I am seeing if anyone has tips on this one as it relates more to Windows I believe than Classic Shell, as Classic Shell only shows what Windows has. I was able to modify jump lists and such to make it that Classic Shell will show recently used documents (TXT, XLS, DOC). The problem is that, and this goes back years, that it never shows everything I opened. I still will need to go and open the file in its original location.

Now seeing this is more of a Windows tweak and less than Classic Shell, I can assume that other Classic Shell users have encountered this and have some tweaks to maybe share that I am missing. I go into "C:\Users\main\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent" and the shortcut is not even there of a file I would open daily manually.

This is on W7 and 10. Wanted to see if any other users using Classic Shell encountered this and found what had to be done.

Thank you.

You're right, the recent items (Documents) list is completely maintained by Windows, it is only shown by Classic Shell.

On Windows 7, open Taskbar Properties and go to Start Menu tab and turn on jumplists by checking the option "Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists". Also, make sure, the "Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists" is not 0. After enabling it, the history will start getting maintained for documents opened after that.

On Windows 10, go to the Settings app (press Win key+i) > Personalization > Start and turn on "Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar".

Additionally, one tweak you can do is add or hide specific file types from the recent list using a third party app called NirSoft FileTypesMan which tweaks the registry: http://www.officehackery.com/2009/11/hi ... ndows.html

If "Don't add this file type to Recent Documents" is checked for an extension in FileTypesMan, it won't be added by Windows even if you open it. So for those file extensions which don't show up in the Recent list, check them using FileTypesMan and uncheck that option.

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