Visual Studio 2012 recent projects not updated in

Question

I have Visual Studio pinned to the taskbar. When clicking on the icon with the mouse right button, a list of recent projects and solutions in shown.

This used to work OK, but from some time now, the list is not being updated. I always see same projects and solutions under Recent, although I have worked with newer projects lately.

How can I fix it?

I'm running Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 on Windows 8 Pro.

Answer 1

• Close all VS instance
• Right click on the Taskbar.
• Click Properties
• Go to the Jump Lists Tab
• Uncheck Store recently opened programs
• Uncheck Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists
• Click Apply/Ok
• Wait a moment
• Check Store recently opened programs
• Check Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists
• Wait a moment

• Open your VS solution and it should now appear in the Jump List.

• This worked as a fix for VS 2012 professional with Win 8 Pro

Answer 2

This last check was the solution for me on Windows 10. Hope it helps someone.

Answer 3

I just installed VS 2019 in January this year (2020) so there's no explanation for why this isn't yet resolved by MS; if you do research, you'll see years old info indicating they were "working on a fix". I searched for info in the last year to ensure I got back the most relevant answers and this came up first because there was activity in 2019. I'm on Win 10 and none of the suggestions above helped.

As a last resort, I manually deleted the old projects from the right-click list and that freed up space for newer files. I then opened 2 of my most recent files and they now appear. Better than nothing. Meh.