You can use this option in the Maintenance pane to remove the Recent Items in the Apple menu (), the Recent Folders in the Go menu of the Finder, the Recent Servers in Terminal, the Recent Web Searches, the Recent Places in the Open and Save dialogs, the Recent Items in the Open Recent command of the File menu of applications, and the appearance of Recent Items (files, folders, searches, servers, and so on) of third–party applications.
However, certain applications (Adobe Photoshop, GraphicConverter, and so on) use their own routine to store Recent Items.