The default value is set to show 10 documents, but you can increase that with a registry tweak. As always please backup your registry first before you performing this tweak. Follow the steps given below:
Now you can see the increase in the number of recent items in Start Menu.
- Click on start menu search box
- Open up regedit.exe
- Then navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer- Add a new DWORD 32-bit value named MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane
- Then double-click to open
- Change Base to Decimal
- Enter any value you want for the list into the Value data field
- Press OK and close Registry Editor
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