How to change the number of recent items in Start Menu using Windows Vista

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:

• Click on start menu search box
• Open up regedit.exe
• Then navigate to the following key:
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  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

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• 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

Now you can see the increase in the number of recent items in Start Menu.