Windows recent locations is always empty

When I opened in recent places in windows Explorer, it is always empty. Can someone idea me why nothing is not displayed? It worked well in Vista ;)

Windows 7 Ultimate

I solved this after 6 hours of experimentation. I had a file corrupted in my user profile. This replaces the offending jumplist and empty recent files of places with those of a profile.

Use it at your own risk well and please do a backup first system...

1. download http://www.homphysiology.org/misc/Recent.zip
contains empty files to an empty profile, I created work
Unzip it to a folder C:\TEMP\Recent

2. right click on your "recent places" and select
"Clear recent items list".

3. type these commands in a command prompt.
(you can change the temporary paths etc. If you want.)

REM attend the incriminated in the user profile directory.
REM for me, it's the title of 'Roaming '.
%HomeDrive% CD
CD "% HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent".

REM we may have to copy everything
REM in this file for a backup.
mkdir C:\TEMP\RecentBackup
xcopy /S /E ".» 'C:\TEMP\RecentBackup '.

REM has now delete everything!
del/s *. *

REM has copy the blank template profile files
xcopy /S /E 'C:\TEMP\Recent\*.*' "."

4. close the session and log in.
Profiles apologies if this breaks your computer.
To reverse the process try

%HomeDrive% CD
CD "% HOMEDRIVE%\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent".
xcopy /S /E 'C:\TEMP\RecentBackup' "."

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