Increase number of folders remembered in Windows Explorer history?

[TakuSkan]

Does anyone know if there's a way to increase the number of folders that Windows Explorer remembers? In both Vista and 7 it seems it's limited to 10 entries. Might there be a registry hack to increase that? ..TS

 

[ThrashZone]

I'm not sure where exactly your referring to I'm assuming the Start menu list ?
Right click the Start button and click on Properties,

If not please say exactly where your needing more items listed,
Cheers.

 

[Kari]

Can't answer the OP's question but this is the entry list referred to, in Explorer:

 

[TakuSkan]

Can't answer the OP's question but this is the entry list referred to, in Explorer:

Yes... Windows Explorer You know, Windows' file manager. In the top left corner where you have the standard Forward and Back icons, just to the right there's a small downward pointing triangle that drops a menu down that shows the last 10 folders you accessed. IE has the same, but you right click anywhere over the Forward and the Backwards icons instead. Firefox keeps 15 items. Here's what I'm referring to:

It lets you skip forwards or backwards to a specific location directly rather than having to sequence through them all one by one. I've never completely understood what the items on the list that drops down from the address menu in the image you posted are supposed to represent Kari.

 

[lehnerus2000]

I'm fairly sure that Windows Explorer remember more than 10 locations, but it only displays 10.

Go to the last item in the list and select it.
If there are any more items in the history, the Back button will still light up and the history list will have different entries.

 

[TakuSkan]

Go to the last item in the list and select it.
If there are any more items in the history, the Back button will still light up and the history list will have different entries.

Ah... your right lehnerus. Thanks for that. I get about 18 history points after selecting the bottom list item. That's helpful. It'd still be nice though if Windows would display a longer list the 1st time you look backwards. The way it works now seems a bit odd.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Internet Browser history buttons (Forward and Back) work in a similar fashion.

 

[ThrashZone]

Under Favorites use "Recent places" it will show the highest amount of history in one click,
Cheers.

 

[TakuSkan]

Under Favorites use "Recent places" it will show the highest amount of history in one click.

You're referring to IE. Problem there is, even if you click a few times to get 'Favorites > History > View by order visited today' ... IE is totally incompetent at keeping a reasonable chronological order of URLs visited. That was the primary reason I switched back to Firefox long ago. The folks that developed FF had Netscape working well with respect to that long before MS took over the market and got into trouble with the European Union on how IE was bundled, along with a host of other issues.

But while I can open FF's History window separately and view a pretty good chronological sequence of visited URLs, I'm stuck back with MS's Windows Explorer offering only a paltry 10-18 folders visited in its file system. I have copied the shortcut <user>\appdata\recent to Quick Launch on the taskbar... but I still have to deal with MS's total incompetence at offering an accurate history of files and folders accessed.

 

[ThrashZone]

Not at all,

 

[TakuSkan]

Not at all,

Did you actually try that before you wrote about it? Browse around your file system a bit, remembering where you go. Close WE and then go look where your pointing to. Do you see any semblance there to what I'm talking about? Am I missing something?

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea it does only show recent folders visited,
In my defense Microsoft removed Recent Items from Favorites/ this same menu was renamed Recent places,
Now you can add it to the Stat menu list which shows up to about 30 recent items,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/104503-recent-items-enable-disable.html

 

[TakuSkan]

Yea it does only show recent folders visited

Does it show them in a reasonably chronological order that matches a test you've actually done? Everything I see in 'Recent Places' on my system is just total gibberish completely unrelated to any sequence of folders I've just viewed. You're REALLY seeing such a list of folders you just visited?

Can anyone else here confirm or refute this? Still wondering if it's something at this end.

BTW: I see neither 'Recent Places' or 'Recent Items' in Vista at all. Just 'Recent PLaces' in Win7.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Details View

Yea it does only show recent folders visited

Does it show them in a reasonably chronological order that matches a test you've actually done?

You should be able to set "Recent Places" to "Details" view and then sort by "Date Modified".

On my PC, I have noticed that folders aren't necessarily added to the history (even if you open/save files to them).

 

[TakuSkan]

You should be able to set "Recent Places" to "Details" view and then sort by "Date Modified".

Have done exactly that many, many times... and get nothing remotely resembling what I get when I click the drop-down list from that tiny triangle in WE.... the menu that was the focus of my question at the top of this thread.

On my PC, I have noticed that folders aren't necessarily added to the history (even if you
open/save files to them).

Exactly!

At least where you guys are talking about in 'Recent Places." Sorting the main '(user)\Recent' menu by 'Date Modified' works to a degree. But I've never seen a reasonably accurate history in any places outside that drop-down menu next to WE's Back & Forward buttons.

Feels like I'm chasing my tail here.... but how the history is kept there, and whether or not it can accessed and displayed differently is what I was hoping someone here could shed some light on. Maybe it's time to dig up my old access info & revisit the gurus on the Compuserve WUGNET forums.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Basic File Operations Only

I rarely use those features in Windows Explorer.
I only use Windows Explorer for basic file operations.

I use FreeCommander, when I have some heavy duty file operations to perform (involving more than 1 or 2 files).

It has:

• A twin pane interface
• Tabbed interface support
• Mass file renaming tool
• History for each tab (individually)

FreeCommander - freeware file manager

 

[TakuSkan]

FreeCommander

Freecommander for speed in deep searches WE can only crawl thru'. WE for speed of navigating, moving/copying data & organizing the file system.