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anderZubi
anderZubi

Reputation: 6424

Visual Studio 2012 recent projects not updated in taskbar

I have Visual Studio pinned to the taskbar. When clicking on the icon with the mouse right button, a list of recent projects and solutions in shown.

This used to work OK, but from some time now, the list is not being updated. I always see same projects and solutions under Recent, although I have worked with newer projects lately.

How can I fix it?

I'm running Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 on Windows 8 Pro.

Upvotes: 28

Views: 5941

Answers (4)

Dennis Mieszala
Dennis Mieszala

Reputation: 568

Check to see if you have more pinned projects than recent projects. At least for my setup in VS2017, I had VS set up to display 10 project, but had more than 10 projects pinned.

To change that:

  • Go to Options --> Environment --> General --> "Items to show in recently used file list" textbox. This impacts the Recent Files and Recent Projects list count.
  • Go to File --> Start Page. If that Pinned list of projects is the same or more than the configuration, then no recents will show up.

It is definitely debatable if Recent list should contain the Pinned items, but that is how it works. Your truly recent projects will be listed after your pinned projects.

Upvotes: 0

ldp
ldp

Reputation: 55

I just installed VS 2019 in January this year (2020) so there's no explanation for why this isn't yet resolved by MS; if you do research, you'll see years old info indicating they were "working on a fix". I searched for info in the last year to ensure I got back the most relevant answers and this came up first because there was activity in 2019. I'm on Win 10 and none of the suggestions above helped.

As a last resort, I manually deleted the old projects from the right-click list and that freed up space for newer files. I then opened 2 of my most recent files and they now appear. Better than nothing. Meh.

Upvotes: 0

Brugner
Brugner

Reputation: 747

This last check was the solution for me on Windows 10. Hope it helps someone.

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Upvotes: 0

Jeff2001
Jeff2001

Reputation: 582

  • Close all VS instance
  • Right click on the Taskbar.
  • Click Properties
  • Go to the Jump Lists Tab
  • Uncheck Store recently opened programs
  • Uncheck Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists
  • Click Apply/Ok
  • Wait a moment
  • Check Store recently opened programs
  • Check Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists
  • Wait a moment

  • Open your VS solution and it should now appear in the Jump List.

  • This worked as a fix for VS 2012 professional with Win 8 Pro

Upvotes: 38

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