How To Stop Any Program To Appear In Frequently Used Programs List?

You can stop any specific computer programs which are appearing on most frequent list of start menu. For example if you want, your windows media player is never showing on the most frequent programs list when you play any movie, so  you can hide this entry from others using these settings. However this tip is very useful for you, if you are sharing your computer with others or you do not want that other persons know about your last visited documents history. Here are the steps for configuration to stop any particular program to appear in frequently used programs list.

How To Stop Any Program To Appear In Frequently Used Programs List?

Step1: Click Start button and select Run.

Step2: Type “regedit” and click OK.

Step3: Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\Program name.exe

Here are the executable file names for others commonly used programs:

For MS Word        = windword.exe

For MS Excel       = excel.exe

For Explorer         = iexplorer.exe

For Notepad         = notepad.exe

For Media Player  = wmplayer.exe

But next time, if you want to disable this functionality then simply delete the NoStartPage string item.

Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.