Re: Managing Recent Items

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Thank you very much for your detailed and deep explanation.

Indeed by 'recent' I meant for latest. As far as I can understand it is not possible to re-order the popup list when I click the Recent Items menu. I would expect Vista to follow up the order as pre-set/set for recent folder view.
Anyway, I'll adopt your exploring concept to get the latest doc's I have modified.

BR
Dudi

"H Brown" <H.Brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OzUGo8Y2JHA.1644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Dudi
From your start menu Right click the Recent Items button. From the context menu that opens select Explore. You now have your Recent Items folder open in Windows Explorer . Right click in the heading column to add the Date Created and Date Modified to your heading column. Now you can sort earliest to latest by clicking the heading name of which ever column heading you want the sort to accrue in. You can click/double click the shortcut of any recent item and that file will open, assuming you have not deleted the file of the shortcuts target. If you are trying to change the order/sort of what you see when you hover your mouse over the Recent Items button of your start menu and the popup menu that shows a limited number of the most recent files you have opened, forget about it. That popup list will be alphabetized. And as far as I'm concerned it should be alphabetized. One thing that can help is not to hide known file types, that way you can see not only the file icon, file name but can read the extension type of the files you view in the popup of recent items/files.

Your definition of recent and someone else's definition may/will vary. Some feel recent is today, others this week, or yesterday and today, 5 days ago and then there are some that may feel that anything in the last 2 1/2 months is recent. All that means is one person may clear their recent items list before starting their work in the AM and after returning from lunch in the PM clear it again because their starting a new project/set of task. So those kind of peoples definition of recent is based on projects/task and the duration of them. That is, as far as it concerns using the Recent Item feature to find files that have been opened. Many other user that have projects that may have longer durations don't rely on Recent Items as the quickest way and choose to get to those files, programs using many of the other tools and features available in Vista that are much faster at getting back to and finding things they frequently will/may require and need in order to complete their projects/task.

H Brown



"Dudi" <ardudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e4Oq34Q2JHA.3304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,

I use Vista Home Basic.
Whenever I use Recent Items for re-running previous documents, I always get old items sorted by 'abc' order.
I tried to get into recent folder and sort the folder content differently but it changed nothing.

Is there any way to sort the displayed items by their creation/modification date (last is first) ?

Dudi


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