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You can pin your applications such as Word or Excel to the taskbar. Once you do that, you'll have your recent item list for that application when you right click the icon. Launch File Explorer. There is a Recent Places link under Favourites. This includes all sorts of things that are not documents. You could pin the associated application to the Taskbar. You then right-click and see a jumplist of recent documents, but this is application specific.

All we want is an easily exposed method to see a menu list of recent documents that doesn't require you to launch a shortcut to a folder of other shortcuts. Windows 7 had this, Windows 8 does not.

I've found what I think is a better solution and it'll work for everyone. If you're not already there, change to that directory. Run the following command:. This will create a link to your recent items in your home directory that is also navigable via the folder view on the left side of Explorer, which a normal shortcut is not.

The recent folder will now be on the start screen. When you open it you see all your recent files and folders. Right-click on any file for the context menu. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 2 months ago. Active 7 years, 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. There is your recent activity in Vista and more than you see using the above method.

You can sort in various ways by clicking on the column headers. If you want, you can crreate a shortcut for this folder right click on the folder and click create shortcut and then place that shortcut on your desktop so it will be easier to access. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. In XP it was rather straight forward, but for some reason I haven't figured out in Vista where and how I can watch my recent activities on Windows Vista.