Clearing Run History without machine restart

[inferno123]

Does anyone know how to delete run history without restarting the machine

RegDelete("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU")

RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU")

Does the job but it requires restart

Any ideas ?

[Kerros]

You could try killing explorer.exe and then restarting it, that should work.

[inferno123]

You could try killing explorer.exe and then restarting it, that should work.

Thank you for tip however this is too painful step.

I found out that when I press Start>Shutdown and then Cancel Run box gets cleared out.

Any thoughts how to implement these steps in the script so they are invisible ?

[weaponx]

Did you try running EnvUpdate ( ) after you delete those registry entries?

[inferno123]

Did you try running EnvUpdate ( ) after you delete those registry entries?

I did try it . It does not do it . Only Start>Shutdown>Cancel works

[weaponx]

How about :

Run("RunDll32.exe USER32.DLL,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True")

Or this ugly thing:

$drivelabel = DriveGetLabel($DrivesArr[$i])

DriveSetLabel($DrivesArr[$i] , $drivelabel)

[inferno123]

How about :

Run("RunDll32.exe USER32.DLL,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters ,1 ,True")

Or this ugly thing:

$drivelabel = DriveGetLabel($DrivesArr[$i])

DriveSetLabel($DrivesArr[$i] , $drivelabel)

None of these works unfortunately

[weaponx]

Last try:

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
$hWnd = WinGetHandle("classname=Progman")
DllCall("user32.dll", "long", "SendMessage", "hwnd", $hWnd, "int", 0x111, "int", 28931, "int", 0)

[inferno123]

Unfortunately this one also does not work.

Thank you for all your efforts AutoIT sniper

I will keep searching, maybe I will get the solution soon

Edited October 26, 2007 by inferno123