Windows 10: JumpListItems_Maximum (Recent Items) applying to Windows Explorer but no other apps. Still...

I've double checked the regedit to make sure I've got the right path.


I've tried other regedit tweaks like Start_JumplistItems.


I've restarted explorer and my PC multiple times.


I've opened and used other programmes and left enough time for them to appear but the recent items will displace older recent items.


Any ideas?

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Increase Number of Items in Jump Lists


I have added the JumpListItems_Maximum to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and tried various settings between 15 and 30 (decimal). Nothing seems to change the number of recent items that appear. I've not tested much with pinned items -- for me, it's a longer list of recent items that I want. Have I done anything wrong or missed something, or does this registry setting only apply to pinned items (from what I've read here, that has not been the case for others)? Note that there had also been the Start_JumpListItems, but different values in that didn't seem to do anything either, so I deleted it, which seemed to be recommended here too for maximum flexibility between pinned and recent items.

Here's a screen shot of that registry key:

 

"Recent Items" list vs Opening a folder for Recent Items

Hello Hamid, and welcome to Ten Forums.

It should show them under "Recent" or "Frequent" in jump lists.

I'm not aware of a way to change how many items display in jump lists in Windows 10 yet.

 

Modification of JumpListItems_Maximum


For whatever reason, some systems require the key to be in the HKLM registry, instead (maybe in addition, I've not tried it w/o both) of the HKCU registry. So just follow all of the same steps outlined by the author, but add the JumpListItems_Maximum key to:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Again, I haven't tried it without also having this value in the same place in HKCU, so not sure if only this one matters or it requires both, but this instantly fixed it for me. No need to restart or log off or anything. Add the key with a decimal value of 25 (use whatever # you want), right click on the item in the Taskbar and it jumped form 11-12 items to 25.