If you clear these check boxes, then Windows is more circumspect about what you've most recently accessed on the system. Note the two check boxes in the Folder Options dialog box.

If you'd prefer that Windows not keep track of your recent places at all, you can turn off this feature. Once you click, the entries are gone immediately.)

(There is no second chance, and you can't undo the action. The General tab of the Folder Options dialog box.Ĭlick the Clear button near the bottom of the dialog box, and all the Quick Access entries disappear.

Windows displays the General tab of the Folder Options dialog box. In the resulting Context menu, choose Options. If you are using Windows 10, go ahead and right-click the Quick Access option in the left pane. In Windows 7 or Windows 8, right-click the Recent Places item in the left pane, under Favorites, and select the Clear Recent Items List option from the resulting Context menu. If you don't want to go through and clear items one at a time, you can clear the entire list. In the resulting Context menu, choose Delete (Windows 7 or Windows 8) or Remove from Quick Access (Windows 10). You do this by clicking Recent Places or Quick Access and, in the right pane, right-clicking the shortcut(s) you want to remove. One thing you can do is to clear out specific places from the list. You may consider this a privacy concern, though, so there are a few things you can do to alleviate this concern. If you are using Windows 10, 'Recent Places' has been changed to 'Quick Access,' which is still located in the left pane of File Explorer.īy clicking Recent Places (Windows 7 and Windows 8) or Quick Access (Windows 10) you can see, in the right pane, the folders and/or files that you recently visited. The Recent Places list is one of the 'Favorites' in the left pane of Windows Explorer, if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8. The 'Recent Places' feature of Windows was introduced so that you could easily navigate among recently visited folders you accessed.

Windows 8 favorites folder