disabling recent history for notepad? (1 Viewer)

[Matsuda-San]

so far ive been using the standard notepad but whenever i right click the notepad icon in the taskbar i can see the recent history of whatever notepads ive opened.
which is a problem cuz duh. even google couldnt help since it only answered how to disable recent history for notepad++

how do i disable recent history for standard notepad? and should i even be using the standard notepad at all?

 

[sby]

How to Clear Recent Items from a Jump List in Windows

Jump lists contain commands and recent files you see when you right-click an icon on the Windows Start menu or task bar.

www.howtogeek.com

or you can just disable that feature in the first place

How to Turn Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10

Here's how to turn off recent items and frequent places in Windows 10.

www.howtogeek.com

also, if you know of notepad++, you should be using that instead anyway

 

[Matsuda-San]

awesome, thanks:)

 

[fleet]

I'm not sure how this pretains to SDT, but since the problem is solved I'm locking the topic.