Can the eventual Disappearance of Recent Excel Files on the Taskbar be stopped? Pinned ones remain.

[JeffFinnan]

As I use Excel, the recent files list on the Taskbar grows. After a while, all the recent ones disappear. Any new recent files no longer show up while the pinned files remain accessible on the Taskbar. To get the Recent Files list started again. I look up how to clear them. Then I lose the pinned ones too as well. Afterwards I rebuild the pinned list. I never remember how to clear the list but search around to find out how to reset. I often lose the Word and Acrobat lists too.

Can I stop the disappearance? Thinking that once the list gets full, whatever number that may be, I will occasionally remove recent files by right clicking on them. Nevertheless, the recent ones disappear and no new ones are added.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[igold]

Are you periodically using any type of Browser Cleaner such as CCleaner. those type of uitilites often wipe out the MRU (Most Recently Used) files.

As an aside, and just for the heck of it, I don't have it front of me, but there is a registry hack that will alllow you customize the actual number of recents that show on the list. I have never had the issue where my recents stop updating. Once the visible list fills up if I delete a file from any position on the list, the lowest non-visble file on the list moves up one spot to the last visible position. I don't think the list ever fills up, it just displays x many at a time.

 

[JeffFinnan]

Are you periodically using any type of Browser Cleaner such as CCleaner. those type of uitilites often wipe out the MRU (Most Recently Used) files.

As an aside, and just for the heck of it, I don't have it front of me, but there is a registry hack that will alllow you customize the actual number of recents that show on the list. I have never had the issue where my recents stop updating. Once the visible list fills up if I delete a file from any position on the list, the lowest non-visble file on the list moves up one spot to the last visible position. I don't think the list ever fills up, it just displays x many at a time.

No I am not using any cleaners. What's the hack specifically.
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[igold]

This worked for Office 2010, it is not working for 365. Will it work for 2019, I have no clue. I do not encourage fooling around in the registry and if you do, I would make a backup of the registry beforehand. That said, you may want to try this. I take no responsibilty for any thing in the following post.

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[JeffFinnan]

This worked for Office 2010, it is not working for 365. Will it work for 2019, I have no clue. I do not encourage fooling around in the registry and if you do, I would make a backup of the registry beforehand. That said, you may want to try this. I take no responsibilty for any thing in the following post.

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Actually I had the DWORD already set at 60. I reduced it to 20. No luck.