diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefDocHandlingUi.ui b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefDocHandlingUi.ui
index 5a5631d34e..1fe9f432f5 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefDocHandlingUi.ui
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/ui/PrefDocHandlingUi.ui
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <ui version="4.0">
  <class>PrefDocHandlingUi</class>
  <widget class="QWidget" name="PrefDocHandlingUi">
@@ -6,7 +7,7 @@
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
     <width>524</width>
-    <height>417</height>
+    <height>387</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="sizePolicy">
@@ -145,40 +146,6 @@
         </property>
        </widget>
       </item>
-      <item row="3" column="0">
-       <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="horizontalLayout_3">
-        <item>
-         <widget class="QLabel" name="lastfilesLA">
-          <property name="text">
-           <string>Ma&amp;ximum last files:</string>
-          </property>
-          <property name="buddy">
-           <cstring>lastfilesSB</cstring>
-          </property>
-         </widget>
-        </item>
-        <item>
-         <widget class="QSpinBox" name="lastfilesSB">
-          <property name="maximum">
-           <number>9</number>
-          </property>
-         </widget>
-        </item>
-        <item>
-         <spacer>
-          <property name="orientation">
-           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
-          </property>
-          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
-           <size>
-            <width>48</width>
-            <height>20</height>
-           </size>
-          </property>
-         </spacer>
-        </item>
-       </layout>
-      </item>
      </layout>
     </widget>
    </item>
@@ -246,7 +213,6 @@
   <tabstop>autoSaveCB</tabstop>
   <tabstop>autoSaveSB</tabstop>
   <tabstop>saveCompressedCB</tabstop>
-  <tabstop>lastfilesSB</tabstop>
  </tabstops>
  <includes>
   <include location="local">qt_i18n.h</include>