I couldn't find it anywhere, but since I don't use Notepad often, I knew it would be in my recent files. Surprise! Notepad doesn't have an "Open Recent" option. So I clicked my Windows button ...

The files you are copying from in Most Recent 15 are just shortcuts. Even when you save it to My Documents, you are just saving a shortcut to a shortcut. You need to find out exactly where Word is ...

I wanted Recent Documents so I could view my recent Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and pic files etc. in a stack. The problem is that it shows more than just those, such as iChat transcripts and ...

and once a file has moved off the “my recent documents” list, it can become lost forever. To fix this problem, many operating systems provide search tools that scan the file system for data ...

Firefox 3.5 pulls data from certain file locations for randomized security purposes. Sometimes, though, that can lead to annoying slow start-ups in Windows. You can speed things up by cleaning out ...

With a dedicated OneDrive icon in the menu bar, I can simply click on it to glance over my recent files, open the folder in Finder, open preferences, and pause syncing temporarily. NearDrop is a ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent ...

Update on May 5, 2025: According to a Windows 10 support page (spotted by Windows Latest), the removal of “recent files” app jump lists in Windows 10’s Start menu was confirmed to be a bug ...

Once enabled, right-clicking any opened or pinned program from the taskbar displays the most recent files opened in that program. You can also open Recent Files in File Explorer to see a ...

When you click Attach File it lists the most recent documents you worked on regardless of which program you used. It can be a screenshot you recently took, a basic text file you opened in Sublime ...

Except these files that were in my recent documents folder, which were marked as being accessed today around 3 PM, when I was gone.<BR><BR>Now, I at least implicitly trust my roommate, and I ...

With typical parsimony, Windows XP offers you a My Recent Documents selection of 15 files. It isn't nearly enough. Most of us are busy to the point of harassment. We forget little things like file ...