IDEA: Longer list of recently opened documents

[daanvink]

Hello,
Windows keeps a list of maximum 9 recently opened documents.
I would like to have an unlimited (user defined number?) list of recently opened documents, which preferably includes full path name and date of last open.
Is such a program anywhere available? If not, would it be hard to write one?
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Daniel.

[tinjaw]

Check out RecentX.

[tomos]

Vista Start Menu is showing 38 x 9 = 342 recent docs here
Most probably not what you looking for but posting in case

[daanvink]

Dear tinjaw, thanks for the link; will check it out.
Dear tomos, I use XP.

[tomos]

Dear tomos, I use XP.

me too lol
as I say it's going in a different direction - it's a programme that takes over the start menu in XP (& presumably vista too) & makes it much easier to navigate (using keyboard) and launch stuff etc.

[yksyks]

There's some registry hack existing, but it never worked reliably for me—it just reverted back after some time.

A free utility RecentFilesView might help. It takes a while before it starts, but I suppose that's the reason for limiting the size of MRU list.

[mouser]

There is an awesome Most Recently Used plugin for FARR 
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13899.0

[daanvink]

Dear tomos, I use XP.

me too lol
as I say it's going in a different direction - it's a programme that takes over the start menu in XP (& presumably vista too) & makes it much easier to navigate (using keyboard) and launch stuff etc.

Yes, I see now. Will check it out, thanks a lot!

[daanvink]

There is an awesome Most Recently Used plugin for FARR 
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=13899.0

I've installed it and am trying it out. Thank you.

[daanvink]

There's some registry hack existing, but it never worked reliably for me—it just reverted back after some time.

A free utility RecentFilesView might help. It takes a while before it starts, but I suppose that's the reason for limiting the size of MRU list.

This one too I will give a try. Thanks for posting.