In this post, I describe how to show the Recent Places from Windows 7 Favorites on Windows 10. Bonus : I also describe how to show Recent Items which displays recent files and folders. Resolution To show Recent Places on Windows 10: 1. Copy and paste the following text %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}   into a Run prompt then press OK: 2. Recent folders  is shown (this is the same as Recent Places ): 3. Left click drag and drop the Recent folders text from the address bar over Quick access in the tree view on the left to pin Recent folders to Quick Access: Bonus To show Recent Items in Windows 10: 1. Copy and paste the following text  Recent items   into a Run prompt then press OK: 2. Recent Items is shown: 3. Drag and drop the Recent Items text from the address bar to Quick access to pin Recent Items to Quick Access. 4. Click the Date modified column header to sort the items and show the most recently modified files and fold...

If you're using the Windows 10 start menu search and it's not showing any results, just a blank screen, read on for the fix. Cause Apparently, this issue started happening today (5th February 20202) and is caused by the integration of Bing search into Windows search. Fix start menu search shows no results and is blank This is more of a workaround until Microsoft fix the issue. Essentially you need to disable the Bing search integration.  This can be done in the registry.  Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search Then create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value, call it  BingSearchEnabled  and give it a value of 0. Then use Task Manager to restart Windows Explorer. The Windows 10 start menu search will now work again.