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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:56:45+00:00

The Recent Projects panel on the Start Page of VS2008 Professional doesn’t appear to

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The Recent Projects panel on the Start Page of VS2008 Professional doesn’t appear to work, and constantly remains empty.

I’ve noticed this on 3 of our developers VS2008 installations, in fact all the installations that weren’t updated from 2005 but installed from scratch. I generally treat this as a bit of a curiosity, but now I have a new laptop and fresh install of VS2008, it’s also happening to me, and I’ve upgraded the phenomena from a curio to an annoyance.

Anyone know if this is a bug or if there is a setting I’m missing somewhere.

Thanks

EDIT Thanks, but Tools | Options | Environment | General | ‘items shown in recently used lists’ was and is set to 6 by default

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  1. Finally worked it out!

    The recent projects is driven by (or at least shares a ‘Show’ flag with) the Recent Documents in the Start Menu.

    For some reason our SOE has this hidden.

    Both the following need th be set to 0:

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

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