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I have created hundreds of project on VS 2010 but "File > Recent Projects and Solutions" section is not there ! normally, it should have been like this

It should look like this

but mine is like below;

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as you can see, also on the start page, there is only two project on the 'Recent Projects' section which is odd given the circumstances.

what should I do here to get it worked?

Thanks in advance for your help.

EDIT

here is how customize window looks;

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and here is the regedit view;

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tugberk
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It seems you have two separate problems:

  1. The "Recent Files" and "Recent Projects and Solutions" options are missing from your File Menu.

  2. You have a lot less Projects in your Recent Projects than you should.

Solution To #1: Go to Tools > Customize > Commands. From there you should be able to select "File | Recent Files" and "File | Recent Projects and Solutions". Next, you click "Reset All". Hopefully, you have those two lists back now.

Solution To #2: This one is a little bit more complicated because it could be a number of things.

  1. First, I would make sure you have the number you want for the "Recent files" options in Tools > Options > Environment > General.

  2. If you already had that, check the registry location and make sure you actually have entries here since this is where VS pulls it from. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectMRUList . The 10.0 is for VS 2010. More info here. If there's nothing there then your recent projects aren't being saved properly.

  3. You could try calling Devenv /ResetSettings to reset the VS settings. More info at MSDN.

  4. Finally it could be due to a Windows Explorer setting which hides recent files. This is a possibility because VS takes its directions from the same place with regards to recent files. You would need to make sure HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer "NoRecentDocsHistory" is zero. More info on this possible solution as well as other ideas to this problem can be found here.

Yetti
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  • the answer was helpful but not solved my problem. firstly, I went to customize page and go to file from the dropdown. I hit add command and Recent Projects and Solutions was not there under the file. (***I posted a pic of it on my answer just now**) and I go to regedit and found out that there are only two entry there (***I posted a pic for that two***) last, I entered this ***Devenv.exe /ResetSettings*** on the VS command prompt and it reset the settings but still no File | Recent Projects and Solutions :S – tugberk Apr 05 '11 at 16:54
  • but there was a 4th option on your post. I am checking it now. – tugberk Apr 05 '11 at 16:57
  • yeah I remembered now :) I have changed that to 1 couple of months ago :) it totally solved the problem. thanks. – tugberk Apr 05 '11 at 17:01
  • Great to hear that! I was going to be totally bummed if none of those helped you. – Yetti Apr 05 '11 at 17:10
  • I have no entries HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectMRUList do you have any idea about why they are not being saved properly? Link you provided doesn't give any clue – AFgone Feb 28 '13 at 05:32
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This worked for me.

open notepad and paste the text below in it without the ===== part.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ProjectMRUList]

=================================================================================== now save it as vs2010-fix.reg or whatever you like just make sure it ends with .reg

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