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Clear the Recent Documents list

By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James Crowley James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...

This short piece of code shows you how to clear the recent document list. All you need to do is add the code below, and call the ClearDocuments procedure

Private Declare Function SHAddToRecentDocs Lib "Shell32" (ByVal lFlags As Long, ByVal lPv As Long) As Long
Public Sub ClearDocuments()
SHAddToRecentDocs 0, 0 'clear all items under Documents
End Sub

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  1. nadar
    05 Jul 2005 at 08:53

    Hi,
    I need a vb code that would delete the temporary internet files and cookies on the click of a button

  2. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

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