recent places

No idea what I did, all of a sudden I have a Recent Places shortcut on my desktop and I am unable to delete because right click at it does not provide Delete option. I tried to drag/drop the shortcut to Recycle Bin, wouldn't take it. I even "removed" Recent Places from under Favorites folder...

Hello, 3-4 months ago i installed windows 7 and i saw that when i was right clicking on the Windows Explorer (the folder image) in the taskbar it was popping out a screen with Recent Places (10-15 recent folders), Windows Explorer and Unpin this from the taskbar. accidentally i missclicked on...

I've spent a lot of time searching for a solution and I'm hoping someone can give me some fresh ideas on how to tackle this annoying issue. My "Recent Places" link is always empty. Looking at ..\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent reveals that items edited (so called "Recent Items")...

When I had Vista, I could open up windows explorer and visit recent files or folders simply by cicking on the little down arrow up in the address bar area and then clicking on a recent location. It is basically the same as visiting recent urls in internet explorer. It would list, apx 10 to 15...

Help! I've lost the very handy 'my recent places' folder in windows explorer, and my favourites (yellow star) folder is now empty and I can't drag anything into it. Anyone know what's going on here? I dunno why it happened, but I'd like these very useful features back. I'm using a new...