ayahuasca Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Hi All, Is it possible to disable list of Recently Opened Files in paint.net? I do not want to store history of each file I have opened in the aplication. Or how to set autoclean of this list after closing aplication? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughty Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Hi At the bottom of Open Recent list there is the choice to :CancelButton: Clear this List. Don't know that you can set it to autoclean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zagna Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 There is one very extreme way... Rick might think it would be bad to do. And not sure if it would even work or break paint.net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eli Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Hello doughty, Thanks for the tip. The Open Recent is very handy. But I tried your tip it and clears the list of Open Recent. On the other hand I have the icon on the Taskbar and when I click on the icon with the right button of the mouse... the list is still there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zagna Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 Hello doughty, Thanks for the tip. The Open Recent is very handy. But I tried your tip it and clears the list of Open Recent. On the other hand I have the icon on the Taskbar and when I click on the icon with the right button of the mouse... the list is still there. That list is handled by Windows Explorer. Separate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doughty Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 (edited) Eli, I learned something new. I like the Open Recent files myself. Zagna, Does this mean that ayahuasca needs to delete history on his computer? We don't need to do bad things. Edited November 14, 2015 by doughty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 14, 2015 Share Posted November 14, 2015 There isn't anything to configure this in Paint.NET, nor are there plans for it. However, someone could probably whip up a script or batch file that just clears out the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ paint.net \ "File/MostRecent/*" keys in the registry after Paint.NET has exited. Then just launch Paint.NET with that script. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj33 Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I found a pretty good work around. Open Regedit. Browse to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ paint.net". Right click the "paint.net" key and click Permissions. Click Advanced and disable the inheritable permissions. Now for your login account uncheck Full Control and only give yourself Read access. You will now be unable to update those registry keys (i.e. save history). You also won't be able to change other preferences stored under this registry key but if your like me you won't change these often, if ever. If you do want to set a new default preference, add full control back, make the change, then set it back to read only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 That's a very bad idea. Don't go hacking your registry like that. It will cause problems. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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