You might have noticed every time you open any document, video files, or audio files a shortcut to all those files gets added to My Recent Documents List in your Start Menu. This list is useful for those users who frequently need to access same sets of files as you can directly open from Start Menu-> My Recent Document list.

However if you are at work where multiple users need to access same computer then this Recent Document list can become threat to your privacy as it allows any one to see which files you have been accessing. You can manually clear this my recent document list but many users doesn’t know how to do it.

For those users who want to instantly clear Recent Document list or don’t know how to clear it here is nifty free utility DLD – Document List Deleter. You just need to specify Recent folder path which is by default Windows/recent and save it. Next time by just clicking on Desktop Icon your my Document Recent list will be cleared.

Screenshot of Document List Deleter

Download Document List Deleter and instantly clear Recent document list from start menu.