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Clear History of Recently Opened files in Adobe Reader

February 18, 2017 by virdih

We can follow the below procedure to clear history of recently opened files in Adobe Reader.
The below picture shows Test1, Test2, Test3 recently opened files in Adobe reader.
Adobe Actobat

To delete the adobe shown files, follow the below steps:

STEPS:

  • Open Windows registry

Adobe Registry

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Navigate to below registry key

Computer\HKEY_Current_User\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\AVGeneral\cRecentFiles

Adobe Reader delete Recent files

 

 

 

 

 

  • Right click on cRecentFiles and select delete to clear out the history

Adobe Reader delete Recent opened files

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Click on Yes to confirm the deletion

Adobe Acrobat delete recent files confirmation

  • Now the recently open files will be gone from the Recent tab in Adobe Reader.

 

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  1. Lissa Hogg says

    June 1, 2018 at 8:54 am

    Adobe reader is mostly used to read PDF files. I was also searching solutions for this query & I have taken help from Adobe Photoshop Customer Support but anyway your article is very good with a good solution.
    Thank you

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