Windows Media Player Recent Playlists - how to clean and erase privacy tracks.
This will clean Windows Media Player recently selected and loaded playlist (not the playlist itself, but references to it).
Manual clean instructions
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1. Delete all the values that match ‘MLLastSelectedNode’ in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\MediaLibraryUI
2. Delete all the values that match ‘LastPlaylist$’ in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
3. Delete all the values that match ‘LastPlaylistIndex’ in the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences
Privacy Mantra cleans Recent Playlists automatically
Privacy Mantra will be happy to clean this location together with a whole bunch of other potential privacy threats! The best of all - it’s free!
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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}’.