How to clear most recently used (MRU) servers list

As the days move with your work on SQL Server management studio, it will accumulate the list of servers that you have been working on, starting from the point of installation of  SQL Server management studio.
This list is called as MRU servers list. Here MRU refers to Most Recently Used.
This makes your life easier by showing the most recently used servers by you and you can just select one from the list instead of remembering the server name and typing it manually.

As the list becomes big or the servers that you were using are no more used by you or for any other reasons you may want to clean up this list, Here is the process on how to clear the MRU servers list.

For SQL Server 2005

1. Make sure that the "SQL Server management studio" is not opened
2. Go to "Run"
3. Type this command %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Shell\ and click "ok". This will open up the folder where this list is stored
4. Now search for the file "mru.dat" and rename this file.
5. After renaming, launch the SQL Server management studio and you will not see any of the most recently used servers in the list.

For SQL Server 2008

1. Make sure that the "SQL Server management studio" is not opened
2. Go to "Run"
3. Type this command %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\ and click "ok". This will open up the folder where this list is stored
4. Now search for the file "SqlStudio.bin" and rename this file.
5. After renaming, launch the SQL Server management studio and you will not see any of the most recently used servers in the list.