Clear Windows Media Player MRU from command line

I'm gonna put my techie posts here from now on. Well, at least anything that contains code...

I was looking for a util that I didn't have to install (as usual cos I don't like installing, and by the way I mean a tool I can run straight form a single executable file). Anyway, this tool would delete my Windows Media Player MRU (Most Recently Used) items, i.e. the list of files you last opened.

There must be a tool that does this, cos when I finally figured out how to do it, it was a piece of piss as they say.

Just run the command string below from a CMD window (get a CMD window by going to Start|Run, then enter cmd and press OK)

reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\RecentFileList" /va /f

This just uses Windows XP's built-in REG command. Wonderful. Here's the link to the Microsoft page with the command's syntax: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/reg.mspx?mfr=true


Hope somebody reads this some time and finds it useful!
ps. I can't use regedit, that's why I couldn't go into the registry and do it manually.

/Josh