"Recently-used-programs"-List

[AnubisP3300]

Hello,

I am using a HTC P3300 (aka Artemis).
I recently updated it to the official HTC WM6 roms.
During the last days I have often looked into these forums to get some help for different things that I wanted to costumized, and I was happy to see that everything worked, so now I am giving you a hard one to solve. ;)
In the start menu of WM6 is the so-called "Recent Programs"-List. I want to get rid of this list, unfortunately it is not as easy as it is in WindowsXP for example. I looked into the registry but I haven't found anything, but I am honest, I am not a registry-pro, perhaps I missed something.
Or is there a program able to to that? I don't want to do every day a cleanup.
To give you some motivation, until now (in WM5 and WM6) nobody could help me, except for the answer "it is impossible" :) , so I hope you guys will be up to it. :D
Thanks a lot in advance.

[devdarshan]

here you go...

instructions are in the zip file attached

if you want more details check out...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=302377

[Sirius-C]

HKCU>Software>Microsoft>SHELL>TaskSwitch>

You will need to clear/delete the entries under it one by one or delete the "TaskSwitch" folder and then perform a soft reset to load the changes in the registry. The TaskSwitch folder will be re-built upon performing a soft reset.

[AnubisP3300]

Thanks.
Just checking it if I understood correctly the solutions you have provided.
What you two are proposing above, is a cleanup that has to be done or will be done automatically when I start my P3300.
Is there no possibility to simply turn the list off, like in XP? So that WM6 will not create any shortcut after I launched a program? Then there would be no need to turn the P3300, just to empty the list.
Thanks again for your help.

[Sirius-C]

Yes thats correct. If someone knows a way of turning it off please let us know

[djcreedy]

I know this is an old thread.
But if anyone wants to know how to disable this on a smartphone..

These are specifically for a BlackJack II. But it should be similar accross the board.

There are two shell entries we need to focus on:
:MSStart - full start menu
:MSMRULauncher - recent programs list.

If we navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:M SMRULauncher

Edit the value for 0 to be "MSStart" instead of "MSMRULauncher"
Edit the value for 1 to be the same as the MSSTART key e.g. - "appman.exe -s BootApps :MSStart tpcutil.dll AMStart"

When you hit the start key on your smartphone device it should jump straight to the all programs menu,

[curlyboi]

while this may work, it ruins that mru thingy and turns it into a start menu...
more elegant solution is to

set string value "Command" to ":MSStart"

in key

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Shell\StartMenu

That will simply tell Windows that default action for calling start menu from shell is MSStart while keeping mru in working state... also, there are several other interesting values out there, like order, you can set specific order of items in start menu... wiping this value may result in alphabetical sorting of all items, including those "important" like messaging, settings and so on... hope it helps