Many people use VLC Media Player and I think everyone likes privacy also. But in Windows 7 or Windows 8, VLC somehow violate your privacy. You play some videos and delete from recent played list from VLC Preferences but it is not enough. If you right click on VLC icon on the dock, you can see all recent played items. So privacy sucks. Here is the solution. If you are using Windows 8 or 10, jump to my new article to disable VLC history on Windows 10.
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Read also 15 VLC Media Player Shortcuts You Should Know About. VLC Player is one of the best player right now and it could play almost all kind of files. But one loves privacy.
First change the VLC setting so that it could not remember Recent Played List.
Open VLC player. Go to Tools << Preferences and Under Interface, there is an option “Save recent played list”. uncheck that option. Follow the below image.
Now after disable the option, we have to disable the default options of Windows also. Actually is a feature of Windows. Whatever you do in your system, Windows make a temp folder and save all items. You can navigate to the folder.
Click on start or My Computer and paste
“%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent Items” or go to “C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent Items”.
To delete all recent activities, open cmd and paste this code.
del %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\*
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To disable this feature permanently right click on your “Toolbar” and go to Properties<< Start Menu option and uncheck the option “Store and display recent opened in the Start menu and the taskbar.” Read also 15 VLC Media Player Shortcuts You Should Know About
You can uncheck both options. Choose wisely what you want. Image
Now open your VLC player and right click on the taskbar icon, you won’t see recent items anymore. Be advised: This would disable to remember all application’s history not only for VLC. π
If you are working on Windows 10, then follow these steps:
Windows10 β Right Click on the desktop, => Personalize=> Start=> Show recently used files jumplist => off.
courtesy – Thomas (Below)
The article can also useful for
1. How to disable VLC not to store Recent Played Items
2. How to delete VLC history permanently.
3. How to remove list on the right click of VLC icon at taskbar/dock.
4. How to disable system to not to store Recent Activity.
5. How to delete recent activity in Windows 7, Windows 8
6. How to disable VLC history on Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8
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This was exactly what I was looking for, thank you for this helpful information!
You are welcome. I am happy that my blog helped you. Keep reading. π
It, also, helped me alot π
Thank you very much.
I am using Windows 8.1. This does not help completely. When I still search suppose the word ‘the’ in the start screen, I still get all video results I may have played…even if they are a month old. Please help in solving this particular problem.
HI Rohan,
Uncheck both options of image 3. You have unchecked only 2nd option. now uncheck the above option also. π π
Plz reply if it helped.
Yes I have unchecked everything. It does everything said above. But this problem persists. Also, I found the result is not shown if I change the location of the file. Example, if I have a video “Perks.flv” in Download folder and I play it having everything unchecked as said above, and then I search “perks” in Search, I will get a “Perks.flv” result as long as I have played it atleast once. As soon as I change the file location, it will be removed from the search result. However, when I play it again from the new location, there it is back again.
Dear Rohan,
I have gone through your porb and added an extra line in bold in the above image. Please check that. And please visit my another blog on disabling start menu search. I hope it will help you. Do comment. I really appreciate it. π
https://deepeshsingh93.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/how-to-disable-file-search-start-menu-windows-7-8-8-1/
Go To taksbar–>rightclick—properties–Jump Lists—>disable both checkboxes
here is link… try this… its very simple… thanks
you save me, thanks π
You are welcome. π
Thank you so uch man. A big thank to you…
Why are you saved, you guys must be doing dirty things on your computer…. Thats not good.
@Sam. Thats funny. By the way how did you come through this article? π π
yes it works…thanks
its because of the bad things i look at… there, i said it.
Thanks a lot !! π
thanks a lot for a long time iam searching for this
Thank you for this tutorial. It worked perfectly. Props to you +1
Thank you this worked perfectly, you are the only one who provided a good solution!
Thank you very much. π
Man, thanx.
Thank you Deepesh, my dirty secrets are safe, thanks to you ;0)
You are welcome. π
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PTL… found it finally, outside VLC. Had the same prob…. found the residual files showing in VLC in Windows history (hidden).
Expand Explorer to View hidden files; go to appdata, local, windows, history. Clear the history of each “This PC” folder located in each of the files labeled 3 Weeks, 2 Weeks, Last Week, Today. (Or, you cold probably just open IE and open history from there and delete these.) Either way, worked like a champ for me. Win 8.1.
good
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This is what i want
thanks u v much .friends
thank u boss
Wanted to express my appreciation for this excellent webpage! Of 5 different sites I searched, yours is the only one that works for WIn 8.1 (but had to go to the “Jump Lists” tab on Task Bar Properties dialogue box). Now back to my porn… π
Thanks Gee and enjoy. π
how to disable in window 10 enterprise edition
thanks very much….
Windows10 – Right Click on the desktop, => Personalize=> Start=> Show recently used files jumplist => off.
Thanks Thomas
Thanks Thomas!
Thanks a lot Thomas for your contribution. I just added ur comment in my article above. Thanks again for helping people. π
thanks
For windows 10
go to setting (click on start icon) then go to personalization.
It shows background ,colors,lock screen,themes, start.
Click on start
then click off -show recently opened items in jump lists on taskbar or start.
Your guide help me a lot in hide my Neeli film activities.
Hahhaa. Thanks buddy π
thanks π
thanks
after going to recent places how to open cmd? pls help
Click on start and type ‘cmd’. Then enter. It will open cmd prompt. Thank you. π
thank you very much man..
Thanks, perfect solution on Windows 7
Hi,
I Don’t want to stop the recent Media additions completely, I just want to stop adding each played song being added. With VLC ver 2.1.3., I used to be able to add several folders with different music types and be able to choose which one I wanted to play each session using [Cont, 1, 2, 3, etc.]. But now, played songs are added causing my folders to scroll off the window. I recently upgraded from Win 8.1 to win 10, and a few days later, VLC from v 2.1.3 to 2.2.1. I don’t know which change caused the problem. Maybe neither, maybe it’s just a setting I am unable to find. Can anyone help? Thanks!
David
Hi again, (David Inman Here)
In reference to the scrolling list question above:
I just discovered that I can put my folders into “My Music” and they are saved in the same way, and are available to start and run the playlist. This is probably what I should have been doing the last year or so. Just a little more investigation and I wouldn’t have asked the question. Thanks anyway.
Thanks much for the help.
This helped. Was looking for it for a long time…thanks!
I don’t think this is a VLC Player issue, I have the same problem with every application, ADOBE Reader, Powerpoint, Excel, Word
Should be a Windows Issue.
thanks alot this is what i was looking for (^_^)
thanks alot π (^_^)
thanks this is what I exactly want
This was superb
Thanks
the link to delete all recent activities is not working in my 8.1 …can u please advise what to do .?
Hey please check the comments.
Excellent, Thankyou !!
Many Thanks,…
awesome suggestion very helpful
Thank you for the information. It works & helpfull…
i have the opposite problem. after an update windows and VLC stopped showing the history list. i want to turn in back on but several searches have been fruitless. everything is correctly checked, both in windows taskbar menu and VLC preferences.
if i go to VLC – media – open recent media then that list is shown. but not the right click on the taskbar, nor the vlc icon in the start menu. they show nothing.
thanks
Hey JPS, this is the most unexpected comment for this article π π . But I welcome you doubt. As of now I don’t have any solution but will surely post the solution if I get. Thanks for coming to my blog.
Regards,
DKS
really useful! thnk youu
Hey Thomas, I just followed your privacy tip for VLC player for windows 7, and it works great. For people who read too fast and are still having trouble, you should unhide your files in -> Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View -> in the list under hidden files and folders, push button saying “Show Hidden files, folders and drives”. Now you can find C:\Users. Also if the cmd prompt is giving you trouble, type : cd\ , and then cd users (press enter), then cd appdata etc until you are at the folder “windows”, and then type “del %appdata% recent\automaticdestinations\*” without quotes. The trouble is caused by not properly quoting the spaces in the username, so windows will be unable to find the path. Navigating manually with cd (folder name) will simplify that. Thanks alot Thomas, now my private habits are hidden :D/.
Thanks for your contribution. π
Hey, it’s very useful trick mate. Thanks for sharing and please do keep on continue sharing this kind of helpful tricks.
5th or 6th time Im here over the years. Thought about bookmarking but Ive prob done that too every time Ive been here. Anyways… Thanks… again
One of the best comments till date. Thank you π
Thanks it was useful
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