Hiding previous opened files in Quickbooks

In QuickBooks, File -> Open Previous Company -> Set Number of Previous Companies.

Set that to 1, close QuickBooks and re-open it. Previous companies (except for 1) should be gone. Now open the company you want and close it again. Close QuickBooks, re-open it and re-set the number of companies for what you want. ... Thinkpads_User

I know you said 2006, but just a FYI....A new feature of 2012 makes this even easier and better, IMHO. There is actually an 'edit' button on the No Company Open' window that allows you to select which files you no longer want to see, leaving the rest visible.

Unfortunately we do not have that version, that would of been perfect.
Do you know if there is a work around in 2006?

I am going from memory, but I am fairly sure you can Set Number of Previous Comanies is available in V2006. Did you try my suggestion? and is it there?

Also, if not, and if this is important, you can uninstall QuickBooks completely, restart, resinstall and update and the number of recent companies will disappear.

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I can change it to only show 1 previous company but I really want specific QB files not to show up.

So if you change it to 1, and open what you want, then that new (wanted) file shows up.

Now when you change it back to N, the list will show only the one company. Perhaps restart your computer in between these two steps for certainty.

I have eliminated unwanted companies this way. So long as people don't try to open old companies, they will not show up.

If you have old companies that you do not want accessed, move them to an unmapped folder that people cannot get to.

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Thanks Tihinkpad user, I'm sure that will work but a little drastic changing Registry keys.
I just need to clarify, I still need to open these QB files I want to hide from previous menu.
They are used very often.

I should have added that QuickBooks just uses the Windows File Open dialogue sub-app and creates a recent list from it.  So my comments apply equally well to Windows and most other Windows applications.

Newer Windows apps have a "pinned" concept, but that is not part of QuickBooks, at least not up to Version 2011. ... Thinkpads_User

I know I can set the previous files to 1, but each time i open the file I will have to manually correct.
I have already set restrictions on opening the files that is no problem, it is purely viewing the name of the files.

Looks like the only solution was to adjust the registry keys which is not a solution I want to risk. I was  hoping there was something within the Quick books software.  Appreciate all the info.

Thank you. I was pleased to help even though it was not the precise solution you were looking for.

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