>OK, I've googled this but have not been able to figure out how to delete a whole solution - projects and all - from the IDE. Seems all the old training stuff and false starts just hang around forever...<

I assume you're talking about removing items from the list of Recent Projects on the Start Page? I found two ways of handling this ... one involves messing with the registry, which you may or may not want to mess with.

This one deals with the registry:

http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_919486.aspx

This solution seems the easiest:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa991991(VS.80).aspx

Here's a recap of the above solution. Basically you move your solution directory elsewhere, start up Visual Studio, click on the solution and you'll get a dialog that this solution doesn't exist, do you want to remove it from the Recent Projects list. Once it's removed, you can put the directory back where it was if you want to. It won't appear on the list again until the next time you open the Solution again.


~~Bonnie