In the forum post https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/ ... t+location on 26 March 2009, Paul O'Rorke asked "I'm interested in knowing why you want to access this. Making changes to the Viewer history is not a good idea. Is this for looking up something you cannot find in the GUI?"
I'm adding this post for knowledge-sharing purposes.
BACKGROUND: My Windows 8 system was playing up, not being able to connect to the Windows Store and so preventing me from u[grading to Windows 8.1 (or getting anything else from the Store for that matter). I couldn't resolve the Store connectivity problem by myself, so Microsoft assisted (via remote support), rebuilding Windows 8 and tweaking a few settings until the matter was resolved.
Unfortunately though, in doing this they created a new local user account for me, which caused all sorts of other problems. After some days of messing around I decided that I had to migrate all my old software settings over to the new local account. Some applications worked fine under the new account, others did not, requiring a few apps to be completely reinstalled and other apps to be tweaked in various ways to get things working exactly as they had been under the old user account.
I had been using PDF-XChange Reader 2.5 and found that the application itself worked fine under the new user account, but I had lost my extensive Recents List contents (together with the list of pinned documents), so -- in answer to Paul's query -- I wanted to migrate the list over to my new account and not lose all that valuable history, and the technique that I used is quite straightforward.
- STEP 1
Under your old user account, use the Windows registry editor (regedit.exe) to export the entire key specified in that other forum post ( HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tracker Software\PDFViewer\Documents ) to a file on your system, with an easily-remembered file name such as myRecentsList.
STEP 2
Log off the old user account and log in to the new account. Then use the registry editor's import function to import that entire key from the file (myRecentsList) into the registry for the new account. (The HKCU section in the registry is, by definition, different for each user account.)
Naturally, this technique works equally well for migrating to an account on a different PC, just write the myRecentsList file to a USB stick for portability to the other PC (or access the file across your LAN).
ENHANCEMENT REQUEST:
Since some people won't be familiar or comfortable with using the Windows registry editor, please add the above export/import steps as options built into PDF-XChange reader. (The equivalent thing for PDF-XChange PRO would be very handy, too.)
