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Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator
11 years ago

How to remove projects from Recent Projects on Start Page

Some of our entries are very old and the projects are no longer in use.  How do we edit this list?
  • Philip_Baird's avatar
    Philip_Baird
    11 years ago

    Hi Marsha, I couldn't find a way of removing individual items from the list, however, if you don't mind losing some entries, click the Tools | Options menu to open the Options dialog and under General | Project there is an option "Number of recently used projects to keep:" which defaults to 8.


     


    If you change this value to 1, click OK, then restart Test Complete, only the last Project will be on the Start Page, removing old Projects.


     


    You can, of course, change the value to, say, 4, to retain, for example, the last four entries.


     


    Regards,


    Phil Baird

  • Philip_Baird's avatar
    Philip_Baird
    Community Expert
    11 years ago

    Hi Marsha, I couldn't find a way of removing individual items from the list, however, if you don't mind losing some entries, click the Tools | Options menu to open the Options dialog and under General | Project there is an option "Number of recently used projects to keep:" which defaults to 8.


     


    If you change this value to 1, click OK, then restart Test Complete, only the last Project will be on the Start Page, removing old Projects.


     


    You can, of course, change the value to, say, 4, to retain, for example, the last four entries.


     


    Regards,


    Phil Baird

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    11 years ago
    Hi,



    Actually, it is enough just to select/click on such a project. TestComplete will try to open it and if the project is not accessible it will be removed from the list.
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    11 years ago
    This is strange as it always worked for me...

    Maybe TestComplete does not have enough permissions to acess the registry (where it stores information about Recent Projects AFAIR). What OS are you using? Was TestComplete started As Administrator in case of Vista and later OSes?
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    11 years ago
    Hi Marsha,



    > Running on Windows 7 and I don't know if it's running As Administrator or not.

    Right-click on the shortcut that you use to start TestComplete. There must be the 'Run As Administrator' menu command. To always run as administrator: right-click the shortcut; select Properties; click the Advanced... button; check the 'Run as administrator' check-box and close all windows by pressing the OK button.
  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    Moderator
    11 years ago
    I had tried clicking on the unwanted projects before and I got a message that the project couldn't be found but they never dropped out of the list.  Limiting the list to 1 did what I wanted.
  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    Moderator
    11 years ago
    Not strange for me because it never worked that way here!  



    Running on Windows 7 and I don't know if it's running As Administrator or not.



    Moot point anyway since I have the list down to the one and only project that I am working on.