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

    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}’.