These are shortcuts to documents that have been opened recently.

Manual clean instructions

1. Delete the files that match ‘*.lnk’ under the path C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

2. Delete all subkeys to the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs

3. Delete all the values except (’Default’) in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs

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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}’.