How can I delete the content of the Frequent and Recent items menus?

The Frequent folders, Frequent files, Recent folders and Recent Files menus under the In the works menu are populated by scanning periodically the Recent items Windows system folder. Since QAP v9.2, these items are collected in the QAP database allowing to calculate the frequency and determine the order of items in the Frequent items menus. This also improves performance when refreshing Recent items and Frequent items menus.

If, for privacy or any other reason, you want to remove the content of the Recent and Frequent items menus, you need to delete this content from the database:

1. In the Options window, under the More tab, click the Quick Access Popup Database button.
2. At the bottom of the Quick Access Popup Database dialog box, click the Flush Frequent Items from database button. This will delete all items from the database.

After you restart QAP, the Frequent and Recent items menus will be empty. If you keep the database enabled, these menus will be repopulated as new contents from the Windows recent items will be added, starting at the time of the last collection.

If you disable the Quick Access Popup Database (by unchecking the first check box in this dialog box), the QAP Recent folders and Recent files menus are populated by reading directly the Windows Recent items menus. To remove these items from the QAP menus, you need to reset the Windows special folder by following these instructions:

1. Open this folder:
   C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
   or use this shortcut:
   %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent
2. Select all items in this folder and delete them.
3. The Recent Folders and Recent Files menus in Quick Access Popup are now empty.

More info:

• What is the “In the Works” menu and its “Frequent”, “Recent” and “Current Windows” menus?
• From where comes the content of the Recent folders and Recent files menus?
• Can I filter out items in Current Windows, Recent or Frequent menus?