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If you’ve ever right-clicked on an app icon on the taskbar or in the Start menu, you might’ve seen that Windows shows you a list of recent items that you’ve opened with that application. In fact, Windows also shows you the recently opened files and frequently accessed places in the File Explorer’s File menu, too. This is pretty helpful for some users. However, if you are not using this feature or don’t like showing your recent items and frequent places for privacy reasons, you can easily disable them.Related: Disable Recent Items from Settings AppIf you just want to disable recent items and frequent places for your user account, only then you can use the Settings app to do that. It is faster and easy to configure from the Settings app; there’s no need for registry hacks or policy changes. To open the Settings app, click on the “Notifications” icon appearing at the bottom-right corner, and then click on the “All Settings” button.2.

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In the Settings app, go to “Personalization” and then “Start” appearing on the left sidebar. On the right panel, toggle the switch under “Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar” to “Off.”As soon as you toggle the switch to the off position, the recent items and frequently places will be turned off immediately. If you want to enable them, just toggle the switch to the On position. Disable Recent Items Using Group Policy (All Users)While the Settings app allows you to turn off recent items and frequent places on a per account basis, it has no option to disable them for all users. For that, you need to modify a policy within the Group Policy Editor which is available to all Pro and Enterprise users.

This method is particularly useful for system administrators.1. Open the Start menu, search for “gpedit.msc” and press Enter to open Group Policy Editor. Next, go to “User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Start Menu and Taskbar” location.2. On the right panel find and double-click on the “Do not keep a history of recently opened documents” policy. This is the policy that lets you enable or disable recent items and frequent places.3.