[lifehacker]

What is the most efficient (resource-wise) way of disabling the Recent Items list in the Start Menu in WM5? For example, apps like WisBar can do this, but Im looking for a less resource-hungry alternative. 100 WRZ$ for the person who recommends a good solution.

[sdawson]

Clean it. That's the least resource intensive way, lots of tweaking progs do this. Or use a program like WM5newmenu, and build you own menu, it doesn't use any resources.

[lifehacker]

Clean it. That's the least resource intensive way, lots of tweaking progs do this. Or use a program like WM5newmenu, and build you own menu, it doesn't use any resources.

That will only temporarily clear it. It wont fully remove the recent items list and make room for additional normal items. Will try WM5newmenu.

EDIT: WM5newmenu only allows a user to create a "new" menu, like the one in WM2002/2003. What Im looking for is not a new menu, but a way to fully remove the recent items menu from my start menu.

[sdawson]

That will only temporarily clear it. It wont fully remove the recent items list and make room for additional normal items. Will try WM5newmenu.

EDIT: WM5newmenu only allows a user to create a "new" menu, like the one in WM2002/2003. What Im looking for is not a new menu, but a way to fully remove the recent items menu from my start menu.

Right, from your original post I thought you were trying to just remove the items after you opened them and/or you didn't wanted a method to avoid them from appearing, didn't know you could reclaim the space . I use the WM5NewMenu to create a whole menu (with submenus) using my left softkey, similar to the menu in Wisbar advance.

The menu in WM5 will never allow more than 7 items, even if you try to get sneaky and add items in \Windows\Start Menu they will disappear when you open the menu and revert back to 7.

[lifehacker]

Thats the problem. Im looking for the most efficent way to specifically remove the recent items from the start menu. The fact that WM5 does not allow more than 7 start menu items and forces a user to use the recent items feature is one of its most annoying features.

[Oskar]

if it would be ok to replace your start menu with a small program, indibar does it all for you, and it doesn't show recent programs either. it's like wisbar, only better
and it's a very small program, low memory usage.

The easy way it is to rename Programs to Program and if you want also Settings to Setting or another similar name from folder Start Menu.
Or you can create your own folders and move all shortcuts you run often from Programs in that folders.

This way anything you run from that new/renamed folders will not appear any more in Recent Programs list.

L.

[lifehacker]

The easy way it is to rename Programs to Program and if you want also Settings to Setting or another similar name from folder Start Menu.
Or you can create your own folders and move all shortcuts you run often from Programs in that folders.

This way anything you run from that new/renamed folders will not appear any more in Recent Programs list.

L.

Yes, but the recent items menu will still be there. It just wontt get updated.

Oskar: thanks for the tip. Will try indibar.

[Bendy]

Have you tried adding stuff this way?
Start -> Settings -> Personal -> Menus

lifehacker, hope you can find this helpfull, unfortunatly this method requires a soft restart and will not permanently keep the recent clear. (unless you can lock the registry string some way, but i havent found a way other then the good-ol moving everything to a new subfolder)
btw, dont just rename your programs folder, on certain windows mobile versions doing so will break some features like setting buttons through the settings.
hope this is handy, i dont expect ne $wrz
make up this registry file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shell\TaskSwitch]
"0"=""
"9"=""
"8"=""
"7"=""
"6"=""
"5"=""
"4"=""
"3"=""
"2"=""
"1"=""

(end of file)

if u make this and have a registry editor installed which can handle file asociations well, (ive come across some that handle them better then resco's, the one native to WM Black Dymond was great ) and you put this file somewhere convient, ie shortcut on ur today screen, or in your programs list. then when u want to clear the recent, you dont have to use some bs progy to do so.. just merge the file into the registry and soft reset. [btw i know this works on WM6 cos i made the reg and took me quite a while to find the apropriate registry string, no one seems to mention Taskswitch online when it comes to cleaning out the recent list.if you can lock that taskswitch string or find what writes to it in the operating system, im quite sure you can turn the recent part of the start menu off all together and keep using your default programs path.