If you don't want to go through and clear items one at a time, you can clear the entire list. In the resulting Context menu, choose Delete (Windows 7 or Windows 8) or Remove from Quick Access (Windows 10). You do this by clicking Recent Places or Quick Access and, in the right pane, right-clicking the shortcut(s) you want to remove.
One thing you can do is to clear out specific places from the list.
You may consider this a privacy concern, though, so there are a few things you can do to alleviate this concern. If you are using Windows 10, 'Recent Places' has been changed to 'Quick Access,' which is still located in the left pane of File Explorer.īy clicking Recent Places (Windows 7 and Windows 8) or Quick Access (Windows 10) you can see, in the right pane, the folders and/or files that you recently visited. The Recent Places list is one of the 'Favorites' in the left pane of Windows Explorer, if you are using Windows 7 or Windows 8. The 'Recent Places' feature of Windows was introduced so that you could easily navigate among recently visited folders you accessed.
