Jump Lists - Reset and Clear All Items

Brink said:

I'd leave maintenance turned on, but would turn off the wake up option in its settings.

All I see in my settings (I'm on Win7 Pro sp1) is as seen on the attached screenshot. By 'wake up option' were you referring to 'Allow troubleshooting to begin immediately when started'?

Brink said:

Yep, that'll be fine. :)

Sure thing! Just didn't get where this 'wake up option' you mentioned is ...

Brink said:

I must admit that I'm at a loss for why it's only the pinned jump list items for explorer and nothing else getting cleared.

Well ... regardless, thanks for your effort! After the OS reinstall it ought to be up and running correctly again, I would assume! :)

Layback Bear said:

I would recommend making sure that Ccleaner is set at default. If it's not some strange things can be removed.
I would also suggest not to use any other program that cleans or tune up programs.

Jack

Thanks for your reply! Neither one of your two suggestions is the culprit in my case. I'm not using any program other than CCleaner to clean things up with. And as to CCleaner itself, as I said before, I only run it on a manual basis and only clean registry with it, nothing else. Besides, as I said, the issues happens at will ... that is - completely randomly. The issue does not occur after a scan and clean by CCleaner. It happens just by itself. So CCleaner is not involved in any way at all. I have not scheduled CCleaner to do any tasks so ... that's that. All in all, the way I see it is that it's not a 3rd party background tool that is causing the issue.