How to Remove "recently viewed products" from Magento Store

If you happen to need to remove the "recently viewed" products callout box from Magento you can easily do it by commenting out some code in the app/design directory....

Comment out the following line in layout/reports.xml (line 27)

<block type="reports/product_viewed" before="right.permanent.callout" name="right.reports.product.viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml" />