Which Windows 10 switch *remembers* Run commands?

He who is harry newton said on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:49:01 +0000 (UTC):

Thanks for that super not obvious suggestion which can only be borne from
experience that you had that I did not have!

At the moment, I'm tentatively anointing Bob as a genius ... because it
does appear to work and it does not appear to show most recently used
"apps" ... so it's confusing ... which is why you're the genius...
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/runmru2d55fa.jpg

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
Commands typed into "start run" were not remembered.

SOLUTION SUMMARY:
Start Settings PC Settings Personalization Start

To turn off start-run memory, turn off "Show most used apps".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/personalization.jpg

This disables the reverse-order fedcba memory in the registry key:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\RunMRU
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/runmru.jpg

To turn on start-run memory, turn on "Show most used apps".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/personalization2.jpg

This enables the reverse-order fedcba memory in the registry key:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\RunMRU
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/runmru2d55fa.jpg

Hopefully, it doesn't show any idiotic "recently used apps" icons!

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others can find it in the future with a keyword search.

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:38:59 +0000 (UTC), harry newton
wrote:

He who is KenW said on Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:41:54 -0600:

Windows Windows Explorer Run (in start menu)

I don't understand that at all.
What menu sequence is that?
CCleaner setting location to clear run


KenW

He who is KenW said on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 09:00:48 -0600:

Windows Windows Explorer Run (in start menu)

I don't understand that at all.
What menu sequence is that?
CCleaner setting location to clear run

Oh. I generally write that as
application: menu1 menu2 menu3 value

Such as:
Ccleaner: Cleaner Windows Explorer [x] Run (in Start Menu)

Where this is the end result:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/ccleaner.jpg

Thanks.
To summarize, the solution was to turn back on the badly named setting:
Win10: Start Settings PC Settings Personalization Start [x]Show most used apps

Where this is the end result:
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/personalization2.jpg

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:04:45 +0000 (UTC), harry newton
wrote:

He who is harry newton said on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:37:48 +0000 (UTC):

Thanks for that runMRU key suggestion.

My "runMRU" is blank no matter what I type into "Start run something".
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/runmru.jpg

I'm sure it's something I turned off at some point, but what?

You and Bob Henson figured it out together!

When I implemented Bob Henson's suggestion, then the runMRU started getting
populated with a list of the "most recently used apps", where, the word
"apps" is a misnomer for "most recently typed things into the "Start Run"
menu.
http://wetakepic.com/images/2017/10/24/runmru2d55fa.jpg

Notice the automatically generated key value of "abcd" but backward for the
reverse order typed!

It looks like reverse order, but it makes sense, in a Microsoft way.
Each lettered item is a command that you ran at Start Run. Starting
from scratch, the first command gets letter 'a', the next command gets
letter 'b', and so on. I don't think the list grows forever, but that's
how it starts. If you run a command that already exists, a new entry is
not created since it already exists.

Separately, Windows keeps track of the order in which you ran each of
those commands, storing that information in MRUList. If, starting from
empty, you ran 5 unique commands, each of them only once, your MRUList
would indicate "edcba" because each time you run a command its ID letter
gets tagged onto the left side of the MRUList. If you go back and run
the second command again, you get something like "bedcba". I haven't
checked in years, but I think that's pretty close to how it works.

He who is Char Jackson said on Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:18:13 -0500:

Separately, Windows keeps track of the order in which you ran each of
those commands, storing that information in MRUList. If, starting from
empty, you ran 5 unique commands, each of them only once, your MRUList
would indicate "edcba" because each time you run a command its ID letter
gets tagged onto the left side of the MRUList. If you go back and run
the second command again, you get something like "bedcba". I haven't
checked in years, but I think that's pretty close to how it works.

I just noticed that the "Start Run" has a "scroll bar" of sorts, which is
this key of reverse-ordered commands.

Harry,

Why is this Win10 answer posted in an *XP* group ? Also, there are *three*
other versions between Win10 and XP ...

(I've removed the "microsoft.public.windowsxp.general" newsgroup from this
follow-up Its therefore quite likely I won't read your reply. Just take it
as a "WTF bub?" remark)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser