This will clean the lists of most recent files and projects used. It also cleans the MSDN webbrowser recent list.

Manual clean instructions

1. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\FileMRUList

2. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList

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Compatability notice

The instructions above are automatically generated on a Windows Vista machine. Some locations may vary between different platforms. For example on Vista the user directory is generally found under ‘c:\users\{username}’ while on previous Windows versions where user directories usually reside under ‘c:\documents and settings\{username}’.