Increase Numer of items in Recent Items folder?

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_{Wednesday, December 21, 2016 7:04 PM | 1 vote}

I did a search on this and almost all results were for Jump Lists & Recent Items in the right-click menus of task-bar-pinned icons and the Start menu.

My question is on the Recent Items folder found at C:\Users\username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent. On my Windows 10 Pro system this folder seems to limit the number of recent item shortcuts at 150 items. How can I get it to allow more?

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_{Monday, January 9, 2017 7:44 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Hi!

I'm not sure if this works on Windows 10, but before you could change it by adding a DWORD to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Call it MaxRecentDocs and give it a value of your liking.

As I said, I'm not sure this will work though.

Best regards
Andreas Molin

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_{Monday, January 9, 2017 12:07 PM}

Thanks, Andreas! I'll try that & report back.

_{Tuesday, January 10, 2017 7:16 PM | 3 votes}

And this works. I set the registry key to 250 and my formerly-stuck-at-150-items Recent folder is now at 196 items. Thanks, Andreas!

Finding that a registry key was the answer, I poked into the Group Policy Editor and found the policy to make this key if one has Pro or higher.

Go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> File Explorer -> "Maximum number of recent documents" ->Enable & set the desired number

Without the GPE, such as when using Home version, the registry key Andreas suggested should be correct.