In this tutorial, we will show you how to disable recent items in Windows 7. The Recent Items folder allows you to find documents and files you used recently. Whatever directory you access, a shortcut of it is stored in the recent items. While this may be a useful option when you want to quickly access your recently opened documents on your text editor it could pose a privacy hazard if someone else gets to see what files have you accessed lately. For people who don’t want prying eyes seeing what they have been up to on the computer, recent items feature can be disabled.