How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio?

Question

I want to clear the list of projects on the start page...how do I do this? I know I can track it down in the registry, but is there an approved route to go?

Answer 1

If you try opening up a project that can no longer be found, Visual Studio will prompt you for permission to remove it from the MRU list. So if you temporarily rename an appropriate top level folder to fake the projects' disappearance, you can get rid of the projects one by one.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this solution has been posted somewhere here, but if you have VS 2013 Update 5 you can open start page, and right click project below "Recent" list, and choose "Remove from list". I don't know how about other VS versions, maybe this feature is available.

Answer 3

Try Recently Used Files: a free addin for Visual Studio that manages MRU files on a per-project basis: Supported for VS 2010, 2012, 2013.

For Visual Studio 2012, 2013: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a61cbd1d-b5a2-490b-a6bb-f0ea3ecf214a

For Visual Studio 2010: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/45283881-5a62-4dc1-8ffb-4cbc02709947

Answer 4

For Visual Studio 2013: Open the Run dialog (Press Win + R) type: regedit navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > VisualStudio click 12.0 then the files will show up on the right side. Look for the "LastLoadedSolution", right click then click Modify change the value to 0.

This worked for me.