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I have some applications pinned to my Taskbar and I use the Jump List to open recent solutions. The Jump List keeps resetting itself, removing both the pinned item and the unpinned.

This seems to be only affecting "document-centric" applications that I have pinned. These show a list of files recently opened by the application and allow you to "pin" the file. The application affected are Visual Studio 2010 and FinalBuilder.

Is there any way I can fix this? Being able to back up and restore the Jump List contents would be useful if I can't stop it happening.

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Jump "Frequent" lists are not perfect and can become corrupted.

Navigate to this folder and delete everything in there to start fresh. This will clean out "frequent" items.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

You can edit individual items in this folder: you will see a list of files with very long and convoluted names. This is because they are all encoded. Each one represents a list of recent items for a particular jumplist.

It’s impossible to tell which entries go with which jumplists unless you open the file in a text editor and browse through.

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  • Thanks Moab. Your linked article has a link to a little app that lets you create custom jump lists. Just what I needed, many thanks! Jun 5, 2011 at 18:35
  • Which led me to this article about another Jump List extender tool: nirmaltv.com/2011/05/23/…. I'm using that one for now as it seems more flexible. Jun 5, 2011 at 19:02
  • You can use Jump List View from Nirsoft nirsoft.net/utils/jump_lists_view.html, it shows the Jump List entries quite nicely Jul 24, 2016 at 10:28

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