Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
XP Run Count Editor keeps track of recently, frequently used apps
by Brad Linder Jul 13th 2009 at 4:00PM
As the name suggests, XP Run Count Editor also lets you edit the Windows registry keys for the run count of each program. And while you might think that's just a good way of letting you pretend you've been doing more work and less gaming on your PC than you really have, there's another practical reason to adjust the run counts. The Windows Recently Used Program list ranks programs based on their run count. If you want to move an application to the top of the list to make it easier to find, just modify its run count.
You can also delete your entire run history and start over from scratch.
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wrs589 said 5:10PM on 7-13-2009
I assume it only works on XP then.
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Peter said 6:32PM on 7-13-2009
"Ever wonder how many times you've run Firefox, Photoshop, or another program on your Windows machine?" - Absolutely not. Who would possibly care about this and of what use would that information be?
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Andrew Pollack said 9:20AM on 7-14-2009
I'd be much more interested in seeing this if it did two things:
#1 Don't show me the executable. Tie it to the installed program visible by name in the "add/remove programs" functionality.
#2 Show me the least used programs (from that list) so I can uninstall them.
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