How to remove items from Frequent Places list from Windows 8 File Explorer

Windows 8 has brought a lot of new features in File Explorer. .Some new features added in windows 8 is that Frequent places are listed in Windows 8 File Explorer, when you click on the ‘File’ tab.

To remove items from Frequent Places first of all you have to to‘Delete History’ shown along with the Frequent places list, which provides options for clearing  Recent places list and the Address bar history as below.

This Frequent places list is connected with the Jump lists properties.For this, right-click on Taskbar , click on Properties for Taskbar Properties and click on ‘Jump Lists’ tab and uncheck ‘Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists’ and click ok button.

You will see that the items in the list gets removed from File Explorer!

 

If you don’t want the List to be removed completely, you can just reduce or increase the ’Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists’, keeping the ‘Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists’  checked.

If you keep it checked but set the ’Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists:’ to 0, the list gets cleared for now, but will populate again and show the new list as you start using the File Explorer.

This is a small tip but will surely help those are confused as to how to go about clearing this ‘Frequent Places’ list.