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You can also erase your jump lists completely—for privacy, for example.

Read on.

Jump List Caveats

Jump lists are great and all, but:

Jump lists don’t know when you’ve deleted a document or moved
it to another folder or disk; they continue to list the file even after
it’s gone. In that event, clicking the document’s listing produces

only an error message. And you’re offered the chance to delete the
listing (referred to as “this shortcut” in the error message) so you

don’t confuse yourself again the next time.

Some people consider jump lists a privacy risk, since they reveal

everything you’ve been up to recently to whatever spouse or buddy
happens to wander by. (You know who you are.)

In that case, you can turn off jump lists, or just the incriminating
items, as described next.

Jump List Settings

There are all kinds of ways to whip jump lists into submission. For
example:

Turn off jump lists. If the whole idea of Windows (or your boss)
tracking what you’ve been working on upsets you, you can turn

this feature off entirely. Open → → Personalization → Start.
Turn off “Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the

taskbar and in File Explorer Quick Access.” (The jump lists and >
icons still appear—but your files are no longer listed in these
menus.)

Delete one item from a jump list. For privacy, for security, or out
of utter embarrassment, you may not want some file or website’s

name to show up in a jump list. Just right-click (or hold your finger