Windows 10: Increase Number of Items in Jump Lists

Can you post a screenshot please?

 

Now that I've used it some more, I seem to be getting even more than 20, up to the vertical screen resolution in fact. Look.

 

That's good news - it means the OS still supports that setting on the new task bar somewhere in the registry.

Can you post a screenshot of your registry entries under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced ? Maybe we can identify the setting.

 

Fwiw:

 

Surprised there hasn't been a followup to this. Indeed changing Start_JumpListItems to a value of 15 as shown in the screenshot works, at least in File Explorer.

 

So I tried changing Start_JumpListItems many times before, and for some reason it never worked - the list size was limited to 10 files regardless of what was in the key. In fact, my Start_JumpListItems was already set to 20 before I got this working today.

There are 3 possibilities I can think of as to how I got it working this time when it wouldn't work before (also reported by others):

• I cleared the jumplist cache today by deleting all files in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
• Thanks to kconover posting his screenshots, I noticed that I had an extra key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced that he didn't, called EnableXamlJumpView. According to this source, that key is supposed to "enable" jump lists in early versions of Windows 10. I deleted that key, changed my Start_JumpListItems from 20 to 15 and restarted my PC, and BOOM I was able to get more items! I bumped the number up to 30 and restarted explorer and I was able to have 30 items pinned.
  • However, I was not able to verify that EnableXamlJumpView was really what was forcing the limit. I tried adding the key back just to test the theory, but it didn't prevent me from adding more than 10 items to the jumplists. It doesn't hurt to try if you still have no success. Instead of deleting EnableXamlJumpView, you can also set the value to 0.
• It is possible that recent windows update may have changed the start menu behavior, and changing the value of Start_JumpListItems triggered a the higher limit, but that is unlikely.

I'm curious if the same thing works for you guys. Now all I need is for Microsoft to fix the start menu bugs that exclude most of my programs from the start menu, and I'll be a happy Windows 10 camper.

 

Well, you cracked your code (and I'm happy for you), but it is not a universal solution. I never had EnableXamIJumpView as a key, and still can't get any jump list to show more than ten items on the task bar.

 

Sorry to hear that. You may want to try clearing the jump lists by deleting the files in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations and changing the jump list size when they are empty. I'm not sure what else may have made it work.

 

Also, have you tried actually "pinning" more than 10 files onto a jumplist? I only get 11 or 12 "recent" files on a jumplist regardless of the size set in the registry, but if I actually pin more, then the list extends.

 

But, if you can't see the files to pin them, how do you pin them? For example, in my word processing program's jumplist, there are 11 documents...but if I open another one (even in File Explorer, it doesn't show in the program's jumplist, so I can't pin it there.

 

You can drag files onto the application icon in the task bar to pin them. For example, if you are pinning documents to Word, you can drag .docx files from explorer to the Word icon on the task bar.

 

That's true.

 

I have a fresh win10 pro instalment and is looking for the same solution. Problem is my limit is 6 applications. Talked to MS support and they told the limit is 6 and can't be change.

I did not have Start_JumpListItems or EnableXamlJumpView in my list (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced). I tried adding Start_JumpListItems and setting a value of 10, but it did not work after reboot.

Default list.

 

Try manually adding both keys, restart Explorer and then try manually drag more than 6 files into their corresponding taskbar application.

 

To further confuse this discussion: on both my laptop and my desktop, my max number of pinned items seems stuck at 12. If I unpin one of my currently-pinned items, one of the items I had pinned under Windows 8.1 now appears at the bottom of the list of pinned items. If I try to pin one of the recent items at the bottom, nothing happens.
On my laptop, I see a max of 11 recent items, which subsumes the entire height of the screen.
On my desktop, I see a max of 6 recent items, which does _not_ subsume the entire height of the screen.
Increasing my HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced). I tried adding Start_JumpListItems to 30; seemed to do nothing.
I have to admit I have no clue as to what's going on. Sigh.
I should also note that I just forced my desktop to, despite MS saying I should wait, to upgrade from 8.1 to 10. I suspect they would say for me to wait forever as my PC is from endpcnoise.com and thus not on the list of "approved" PCs.
Kudos to the Win10 team: upgrades have been painless. I've been using Microsoft operating systems since I switched from CP/M to MS-DOS, and this is by far the easiest upgrade. And, as a UI/UX dweeb, there are many subtle little things about Win10 that make me very happy to see this new OS.