J&P
Thu Aug 21 08:55:22 PDT 2008
Top posting to follow last poster's preference.
As John John(MVP) has already explained, the "pick list", as you call it, is
just a list of MRU's, i.e. a list of Start/Run commands that you have
"recently" used.
For example, if you run the CMD command, then run the Regedit command, then
Clipbrd command, you should find that you have created a "pick list"/MRU
list of these 3 commands.
Most likely, you have some program (I have CCleaner) which clears this list
on startup or shutdown or some other time, hence the reason you do not have
a permanent "pick list".
At least, that's the way it appears to me. But I may not be quite fully
understanding your question?
Regards
Joe
<inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
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> It's been there as long as I can remember, but it doesn't hold anything.
>
> It did, at one time, but even then only sporadically. Then something
> turned a BUNCH of my configurations upside down and no more pick list
> contents. I'd LOVE to have a funcitoning pick list there, but - I don't.
> Hence my question. Why is it even there if you can't depend on it?
>
> "John John (MVP)" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> said:
>
>>That's always been there, the Run MRU's (Most Recently Used) are stored
>>at:
>
>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU
>
>>John
>
>>inkleput@isp.com wrote:
>
>>> Why is there a pick list in the Start -> Run dialog?
>>>
>>>
>>> JimL
>>>
>
>
> JimL
>
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