Maximum number of recent documents

Determines how many shortcuts the system can display in the Recent Items menu on the Start menu.

The Recent Items menu contains shortcuts to the nonprogram files the user has most recently opened. By default, the system displays shortcuts to the 10 most recently opened documents.

Supported on: At least Windows 2000

Maximum number of recent documents

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value NameMaxRecentDocs
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Default Value15
Min Value
Max Value

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