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Visual Studio Remove Recent Projects MRU

Problem
Need to remove obsolete items from most recently used (MRU) Project items in Visual Studio.

Solution
To clear mru project list in Visual Studio
  1. Exit out of Visual Studio.
  2. Find entries located in registry location:
    VS2005: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList
    VS2008: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList
  3. Change unwanted entries to "DELETEME".
  4. Open Visual Studio
  5. Click on entries labeled "DELETEME" under "Recent Projects".
  6. Select "Yes" when asked to remove entry.
References
None

Updates
2011-01-21 Added VS2008 location.
2010-09-08 Changed removal procedure.

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