thanks for the welcome
I've just tried your method. I cut and pasted all the files to my desktop (hope that does the same as deleting them). But it still doesn't work. Do you think I have to wait a while or.... do I need to restart?
PS. I did see 3 files over 1000kb

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A Guy
Welcome to Seven Forums wazzupbeckham. Here's something to try:
Start> In search box type
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
and press enter
See if any of the automaticDestinations-ms files are larger in size than the rest of the file, such as files that have file size of 1 MB or more.
Delete the larger files. If you're not worried about saving Jump Lists’ recent items history delete all the automaticDestinations-ms files in the folder. See if the recent items lists will now work. You will obviously need to create some new history before anything will show.
A Guy