Purging Recent to avoid confusion

Question

Is there a way to remove certain projects/solutions from the Visual Studio menu FILE -> Recent Projects and Solutions besides deleting the solutions/folders?

I believe that it will prompt you if you delete it, but this seems like overkill.

Answer 1

You can do this by modifying your registry. There is a registry entry like the following:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ProjectMRUList

The 11.0 corresponds to Visual Studio 2012, but it is probably similar for other versions. Here you will see multiple entries that look something like the following:

From here you can delete any File that you don't want to appear in the recent solutions list.

I found this information as part of the community feedback for How to: Remove Items from the Recent Projects List on the Start Page.