Is there a way to manually edit my Windows -> Run command history?

Question

Windows 7. I rely on my Windows -> Run command box regularly throughout my work day. However, I occasionally mistype a command, and this command gets stuck in the auto-complete history. This is particularly annoying when the mistype makes the wrong command precede the correct version in the command history. At this point I end up always executing the wrong command once before realizing I have to play closer attention to what was being listed and manually locate the correct version.

I don't want to clear the whole thing, because then I would lose the history of the useful commands. I just need to get rid of the irritating ones that get in the way.

Answer 1

In Windows XP, 7 and 11 this is stored in the registry under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

From there you can remove or edit the ones that you don't need. I don't have any computer with Vista/Windows7 so I can't confirm if this is the same key for Windows 7.

UPDATE: You will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect, since they are stored in memory.