Recent Items Manager

Recent Items Manager gives you full control over Visual Studio’s recent items list. Instead of clearing everything blindly, this extension lets you review, filter, and selectively remove recent files, projects, solutions, and Start Page items- safely and efficiently.

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View -> Other Windows -> Recent Items Manager

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Key Features

✅ View all recent items in one place

• Recent Files
• Recent Projects
• Recent Solutions
• Start Page recent items

📌 Pinned-item awareness

• Clearly indicates pinned entries
• Option to keep pinned items while cleaning everything else

🔍 Validity detection

• Highlights items whose paths no longer exist
• Quickly remove only invalid or stale entries

☑️ Selective cleanup

• Choose individual items to remove
• Remove only what you want - nothing more

🧹 Bulk actions

• Clear all recent items
• Clear only selected items
• Clean invalid items with one click

🪟 Tool Window UI

• Accessible from the View -> Other Windows -> Recent Items Manager
• Clean, familiar UI that matches Visual Studio themes