How to remove recent files from windows applications?

Question

Whenever I make secondary click on any windows application, it shows me a list of recent files:

I have already tried to remove them using this:

but they don't go away. Could you help me?

Answer 1

Actuallly these are called jump lists. You can go to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations,%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent and remove the files there. Restart explorer then with taskkill /im explorer.exe /f & explorer in command prompt.

Answer 2

Found the answer somewhere and works easily no need to do all that.

"Click on Settings-Personalization-Start-Show Recently Opened Items In Jump Lists On Start Or The Taskbar (Uncheck and after Check) It resets Start Menu Recent and The Photos Recent Files."

Was answered by: Nikolaos https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/91084c49-e40d-4404-9871-b9e196ed6c6c

Answer 3

I wanted to share my solution here just in case someone has a similar situation. My case is with Android Studio:

Android Studio is pinned to the Task Bar. Whenever I right-click it, a jump list shows all the projects for me to choose to open. All the projects on drive E, shown in the screenshot, have been moved to drive C. Since they have the same names, I saw project paths instead of project names. It was a major nuisance. I could right-click any recent project on drive E to delete it, so I could remove all of them. However, after I closed the jump list and right-clicked Android Studio again, all of them would come back.

I have found the solution finally: Go to Android Studio > File > Recent Projects > Manage Projects > delete all the non-existent projects.

In essence, an app's jump list is managed by itself, at least for Android Studio. This may be true for some other apps.