Hello Ensure you don't copy PSPad to Program files folder. Any program has no rights to write there.
Anyway, recent files are written into Recent.INI file. The place where the files are stored you can see in the program settings / Backup (tha path is clickable) -- <https://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,71795,71796> PSPad freeware editor https://www.pspad.com
