The tip shows how to remove recent projects from Visual Studio start page.
Above Visual Studio 2010 versions:
From visual studio 2010 on wards, you can remove projects from the Recent Projects list on your Start Page using right-click the project -> Remove From List.
Fig: Remove project from Recent List
Below Visual Studio 2010 versions:
If you want to remove recent projects from list with visual studio 2008/2005/2003/2002, the way is using registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\{Version_Number}\ProjectMRUList).
Version_Number:
Visual Studio .NET 2008 - 9.0
Visual Studio .NET 2005 - 8.0
Visual Studio .NET 2003 - 7.1
Visual Studio .NET 2002 - 7.0
Example:
Run(Windows Key + R) -> regedit -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList ->
Registry shows list of files with path(Data Value). Remove the item whichever you want.
Fig: Remove project from Recent List
Note: Project is removed from the list but not from file system. If you want to permanently delete the project, do from your file system.