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From my own experience, you should never directly fiddle with the content of this folder. No problem to do it indirectly with API - the final result is important. But even direct deletion of file/link is not such a big problem. If necessary, VLC may display warning "do it at your own risk"...

(I hope) you see that best solution is a new setting with root directory under which all videos are censored. Removing symlinks from "C:\Users\<current-user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent" will be good addition.

Can I use slashes in List of words like \pron\ ?

PS: For Windows Start menu Recent files - it seems they are links in folder:

Unfortunately the filter cannot help because .AVI, .MPG, .MOV types are common for all video files and keywords in file name are not trustworthy solution. File location (base directory) is the best way to ignore "bad" content. About Windows Start - Recent menu, I agree it is Windows featur...

Hi. I think a feature can be useful - definition of root directory whose files (incl. subfolders) are not included to Open Recent Media list (or Windows VLC - Recent menu). Something like "auto clear history" for certain folder. Why is this necessary? Imagine you download and play unsuitab...