How do you clear your MRU list in Visual Studio?

Question

I want to clear the list of projects on the start page...how do I do this? I know I can track it down in the registry, but is there an approved route to go?

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2015 all the history lists (including search history, file MRU and project MRU) are now located at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\MRUItems

You will see a different GUID folder for each list, and a sub-folder called Items in each of them. Find the Items folder that contains the relevant list, and just delete its parent GUID folder.

Visual Studio will re-create the GUID folder together with a new Items child folder, next time it wants to add something to the list again.