Tuesday, 9 November 2010

Windows 7 Jump Lists

I've been having problems in that my jump lists seem to work perfectly except on Excel 2007 that I use all the time - it's jumplist contains one item that never changes & unfortunately is not something I use often.

It turns out that the jump list files can get corrupted, so the easy answer is to bin the whole lot and start again - so just delete the files in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations.


Alternatively, a more methodical but less reliable approach is to just delete the large files found in there -they appear to be files that have become corrupted.

2 comments:

  1. how about saving a non corrupt file and copy it back in case of corruption

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  2. If you mean resaving a given file to see if it sorts the issue by overwriting the corrupt file that doesn't work, that was the first thing I tried.

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