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Clear Run Command Dialog History in Windows 10

Command Prompt is a command-line interpreter application that is available in all versions of windows. Command Prompt is also known as cmd, you can open the command prompt from the run command by typing cmd. Command prompt allows you to run multiple commands and also you can create batch files to automate a few basic tasks. You can use the command prompt efficiently by creating a batch file script and automate it using a task scheduler. And command prompt is very powerful compare to apps with graphical user interfaces, also command prompt commands gives us a direct line of communication with the operating system.

If you Know the DOS command well then you can do literally anything with the system. Many users use the command prompt to check the network connection status. Ping, netstat, and ipconfig commands which can tell you a lot about your network status. Most of the user use command prompt to open any apps, programs, documents, system paths, etc., Besides this Command prompt stores all the commands that we enter as a cache. So whenever you type the first letter of the command it will show all the related commands which start from that particular letter. This article will guide you to Clear Run Command Dialog History.

Clear Run Command Dialog History:

Note: Modifying the Registry is risky, and it causes irreversible damage to your OS Installation Follow the steps correctly. Friendly advice Before Modifying Registry Creating Restore Point is recommended.

Open the Run command by pressing Windows + R and type regedit and hit enter, this command will open the Registry editor.

Now navigate to the following path.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

From the left-hand side click on the RunMRU registry key and from the right-hand side, you can see the string values like a,b,c,d,e, and so on.

Now you can check the list and delete all the string values except the Default key. Deleting these string values will clear the Run dialog history on your PC.

Clear Run Command Dialog History

While deleting if you got any confirmation dialog box click on Yes and delete it. Most of the Junk file cleaners will clear the MRU list. There are many third-party tools available to clear Junk files, this will clear the MRU list.

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