How To Clean Run History in windows

Windows keeps the run command history in a registry value, By empty this value you can clean the history list and protect your privacy, just delete all the value in this key :

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

In Addition, clean the auto complete, Empty this registry value as well !

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths

You can also create scipt to do this with one click, just copy this lines into .cmd or .bat batch file :

REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU /va /f
REG DELETE HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TypedPaths /va /f

On Windows 10 you can also clean TaskView and all kind of history by going to SETTINGS -> PRIVACY -> ACTIVITY HISTORY (Press clean at the bottom):

 

You can also unmark this settings :


Good Luck

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