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How to troubleshoot grayed out option for “store and display recently opened items in the Start Menu and the Taskbar” in Win 7?

Posted by on Jan 10th, 2011 // No Comment

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If the option to “store and display recently opened items in the Start Menu and the Taskbar” is grayed out in Win 7 then below solutions will surely help you out.

Solution 1:

  1. Open REGEDIT.EXE
  2. Find the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
    1. Find the registry values for “NoRecentDocsMenu” and “NoRecentDocsHistory”. If any of them is set to 1 then delete it. If both of values are set to 1 then delete both of them.
  3. Browse to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
    1. If this key exists then find the registry values for “NoRecentDocsMenu” and “NoRecentDocsHistory”. If any of them is set to 1 then delete it. If both of values are set to 1 then delete both of them.
  4. Restart the PC

Note: If you do not want to delete anything in registry then instead of deleting, set the values of both registry keys to 0.

Solution 2:

  1. Right Click on Taskbar.
  2. Go to Properties. The dialog box for ‘Taskbar and Start Menu properties’ will open.
  3. Go to the tab for Start Menu.
  4. Select the option for “store and display recently opened items in the Start Menu and the Taskbar”
  5. Click on APPLY button.

Below video will help you customize the Start menu and Taskbar in Windows 7 YouTube Preview Image







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