Questions tagged [jumplist]

Jump Lists were introduced in Windows 7 as a way to re-open commonly used files or shortcuts in applications. For example, right-clicking a media player icon may show the most recently played media files.

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Jump Lists not showing for Office programs in Windows 7

I have a laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I installed Office 2010 on this laptop, and I noticed that Jump Lists were not showing. If I pin Word, Excel or PowerPoint to the taskbar or start menu, ...
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Keyboard navigation of jump-lists in Windows 10?

As a keyboard-aholic, I used to call up the jumplists of my most-used applications with the keyboard and then start typing the entry I wanted to navigate to it. I lost that ability with Windows 10 ...
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Windows 11 jumplist is extremely slow

My jumplist for all the programs pinned on my taskbar is extremely slow. I'm running a new Windows 11 22H2 laptop. All Office app and also other apps are affected. I tried deactivating the flag in ...
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Can't pin folder to Windows Explorer Jump List

I've tried looking for a solution and have yet to come across one. Does anybody know how to pin a folder to the Windows explorer jump list? I've tried dragging the folder on top of the explorer icon ...
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Windows 10 shows recent items when right-clicking in the taskbar, but then says it can't find them

For months and months now, I have been unable to reopen recently-opened filed from MS Word via the taskbar. I can see the files there when I right-click them, but every time I try to click on the ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar. How to Filter pin suggestions in Jump list

Windows Taskbar, pinned application. I'm looking for a way to filter out, or hide/remove/delete automatically if you will, (not disable functionality) suggestions in the Recent section, based on file ...
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Windows 10: Can I reverse the order of jumplist menu items in task bar context (right click) menu (after moving task bar to right and not bottom)

The user moved task bar from traditional bottom position to the right. That is because the user wants it this way and prefers it on the side. But, after such change - the ability to "close all ...
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How to create a Jump list for any program?

To explain further, check this image first that show the context menu when right-clicking an app in the taskbar: You can see a list of tasks that will be called immediately after launching the app. ...
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Google Chrome jump list tasks aren't working

The item you selected is unavailable. It might have been moved, renamed, or removed. Do you want to remove it from the list? If you use StartIsBack, you get this error message: C:\Program Files (x86)\...
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Windows 10 - Are there any shortcuts to access the tasks or items within a taskbar Jump-List,

I've pinned MS Outlook as my first taskbar item and its very convenient to access some quick tasks via keyboard shortcut Windows Key + Alt + 1 Thing is I use the keyboard shortcut to open the jump ...
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Broken jump lists on Windows 10

I have noticed that all my taskbar and start menu jump lists are broken. They are broken in a very specific way: The items show up, but clicking them does nothing (clicking dismisses the jump list, ...
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Copy taskbar jump list to taskbar jumplist of a different program

I have installed an updated MS Office version separately (to keep the old version, which is 32 bit). I would like to copy all my Jump list links from my old version to the new version. Is there any ...
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How to prevent the "ApplicationDestinations" (Jump Lists maximum entries) Windows registry key from getting reset?

The Windows (7) registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ApplicationDestinations controls the maximum number of items that can appear in a Windows Jump List (...
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How to clear jump lists for a specific program

How do you clear the jump list of recently opened files for a specific program? I'm looking to clear entries for programs on the Start Menu and pinned to the taskbar.
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How to clone Windows 7 Profile to another computer? (ALL jumplists, icons, passwords)

I used Macrium Reflect Free to make a backup after my Windows had BSOD (did the all the repairs avail to no avail) I did a offline image copy of my old hard drive with Macrium. Im able to login with ...
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How to prevent a Windows 7 registry setting from always getting reset to the default on reboot?

Hopefully this question will be asking the correct question, and not be an infamous "XY" problem question. The challenge is that "X" has already been asked and answered, but that ...
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How to start Vim with a clean jumplist

I want Vim to start up with a clean jumplist. I don't want to go back to old files i edited in another session when I press CTRL-O. The jumplist is stored in .viminfo and I can't get it to disappear ...
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How do I increase the number of items on a jump list in Windows 10?

How can I increase the maximum number of items that appear on a Windows 10 jump list, and is there any way to set separate maximums for recent and pinned items? I use Remote Desktop to connect to ...
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Windows 10 Jumplist pinned server items lag?

I'm having an issue since upgrading to Windows 10 regarding jump lists. I have several programs pinned to the taskbar, one of which is Excel. Pinned to this jumplist are several Excel workbooks, ...
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Windows Explorer Jumplist delay

I've begun to have an issue with the Jump list for Windows Explorer (Windows 7). What happens is that when i gesture click, or right click on the explorer icon the first time after rebooting the ...
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Windows 7 Jumplists - How to turn off for Windows Explorer ONLY in taskbar

I really like Windows 7's feature of jumplists. It's great at caching recently viewed/visited documents and sites for all kinds of applications. Bravo to the Windows 7 team for making this feature ...
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Firefox Recent jumplist is set to Disable but is still showing recents

Apologies if this is the wrong StackExchange for this query-- How can I prevent Firefox from saving PDFs in Recent on the taskbar jump start? These PDFs were not even opened in Firefox or from the web,...
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Putty Taskbar Jump List Broken on Windows 10

I have Windows 8 on my laptop and the jumplist for putty has always worked just fine. After installing Putty on my desktop (Win 10) the jumplists do not show up when I right-click the taskbar icon, ...
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How to re-order pinned entries in Windows 10 JumpList

I have some pinned entries in the Jumplists for various of my Taskbar-pinned programs: I want to re-order those pinned entries. Is there any way to do so? Drag-and-droping does nothing, alas.
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Windows 10: Strange taskbar flickering and cursor delay for jumplists

For the last couple of months, I've been facing a very strange flickering/delay issue in Windows 10 that I cannot resolve. There are two problems: Some time after every reboot, I have noticed that ...
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How to remove folder from Explorer's jump list

I'm using Windows 7 and Windows Explorer some folders were added to the taskbar jump list (under the Frequent section) that no longer exist. When I try to remove those folders from the jump list (...
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Jump List for Explorer in Windows 10

After an upgrade to Windows 10, I noticed that all entries (folders) in my Jump List for File Explorer do not open when I left-click on them. The rest of my Jump Lists work as I would expect, with ...
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How can I add a folder toolbar to Windows 10 taskbar with PowerShell?

On the taskbar, you've always been able to right click on "Toolbars" and then "New Toolbar..." which will ask you for a folder to select. This folder would then appear as a separate toolbar on your ...
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ignore a directory for recent items in Windows 7/8/10?

Is there a way to tell Windows 7/8/10 to completely ignore a folder when tracking it's recent items? Not just a single program, but anything making use of files in a given directory. Jumplists don't ...
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Jumplists broken except visual studio

Every app's jumplists are broken (both recent and actions) except for VS 2017 & VS 2015. Both MS apps (VS code/edge/office/etc) & non-MS apps are broken. This started happening recently after ...
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How can one completely disable explorer's jump lists in Windows 10?

I never right click on a minimized window in the taskbar for any other purpose than closing it. Seeing a massive list of irrelevant items taller than 1000px in height whenever I right click on an ...
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Rename RDP entries in Jump List

I have some Remote Desktop connections "pinned" to the Remote Desktop icon in my task bar. All of the entries in the "Jump List" are labeled either with the machine's IP address or its hostname. ...
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How to change Windows 10 task bar jump list color?

I can change the colors of the task bar and with Classic Shell the start menu, but the Task Bar jump lists remain black. Is there a way to change the background color of these?
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Chrome in Windows previous Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.3) : "Most visited" sites in the taskbar Jump List don't match those in the New Tab page

Deleting a frequent site in the new tab should remove that site from the jumplist (at least in Chrome, see this post). But it is not my case; see: The first 4 links you can see in the Taskbar ...
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How to add arbitrary executable programs to a Windows 7 Jump List?

In Windows 7, you can pin items to the taskbar. Once an item is pinned to the taskbar, you can pin items to the list displayed when you right-click on it (known as a Jump List). I have a pinned ...
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What is a Jump list in Windows?

In Windows 8, when I right-click the taskbar and choose Properties, I see a new second tab called Jump lists instead of Start Menu: What are these lists and where can I access them?
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Explorer jumplist dissappears repeatedly

I've always had problems with windows 7 jump lists disappearing, but it used to be an infrequent problem. But I now have a bat-file to regularly back up all jumplists, so I can restore easily. This is ...
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Win10 Jump List Missing Pinned & Frequent Files

The "File Explorer" object in my Win10 Start Menu no longer displays Pinned and Recent files and folders in its Jump List. I couldn't say what exactly caused the behaviour, but it's happened on ...
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Lost text file from jumplist [closed]

I am missing a text file. The file was usually accessed via a pinned shortcut on a jumplist off of the Notepad shortcut on the taskbar. I don't remember where the actual file was stored. The ...
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Change from frequent to recent items in explorer jump list

I know it's possible, but I can't for the life of me figure out how I did it... In a fresh Windows 7 install, the explorer jump list shows frequent items. There is a way to change it to show recent ...
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Is there a way to run the software as administrator when opening via jump list

I have set an .exe I use a lot (Visual Studio, but I don't feel it's relevant what program) to always run as administrator by right clicking on the icon, clicking Properties, then clicking Advanced ...
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Windows 10 Taskbar JumpList Issue, Not working

Issue: I'm having trouble with the Taskbar and Windows Explorer. I right-click on Notepad (that I've pinned to my "taskbar"), I try opening a previously pinned file (or recently used in the list that ...
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Disable Recent Items in Jump Lists for Certain Programs

Is there any way to turn off the recent items in the jumplists of specific programs in Windows 7? This feature is useful on some programs (like my text editor) but there are other programs that I don'...
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jump list gone after office update from 2010 to 2013

I recently updated from office 2010 to office 2013 and my jump list is gone for excel,word etc. I had saved the CustomDestinations and Automaticdestinations file. however this apparently does not help....
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How can I increase the size of the pinned jump list in Windows 7?

I use Notepad++ for a bunch of text files. I like to pin my frequently used text files to the Notepad++ icon on the taskbar. There seems to be a limit of 18 items visible. I can pin more than 18 ...
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Windows 7: Rename items in taskbar jumplists without renaming the actual file

TL;DR: I want to be able to change the name of items in the Windows 7 taskbar without changing the name of the file they link to. Using ZIM Desktop Wiki I want to pin my notebooks to the taskbar icon ...
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How to prevent the loss of Jumplist items when LibreOffice is upgraded?

Every time LibreOffice is upgraded, all the Jumplist items which were manually added for each application within the suite are deleted. The operating system is Windows 7 SP1. Is there a way to ...
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How do I replace Windows 8.1 frequently visited folders to recently?

Unlike the previous OS I've had (Win7), instead of showing me recently visited folders, Windows 8.1 only provides me with a list of my most frequently visited folders. It is comfortable, I'll admit. ...
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files are not getting added in jump list, say, in notepad+

in w8-32 bit, as well as in w10-64 bit, new files that I open and use and save in some software are not automatically getting added to jump. I am observing this in notepad+ If jump list is a feature ...
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Where are Windows jump-list tasks stored?

I have a problem from time to time with Opera's jump-list tasks. It seems that, after some upgrades, they stop working because they point to the old version number (2 releases back): Here is what ...