I recently installed a bunch of new utilities on my hx2795 and somehow screwed up my start menu to where the recent items was continually growing and growing each time I would click on the start menu. After uninstalling almost everything I still saw the problem. After scouring the registry and clearing every feasible reference, I was still unable to get the recent menu to go away! I finally found a utility that fixed the problem.

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