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As most of you know that there are two options to remove web parts from a SharePoint  page.

• Close – preserves the web part’s configurations and customizations in Closed Web Parts gallery.
• Delete – deletes permanently.

If you want to see list of all closed web parts on the page, you have to go to Web part maintenance page. However, there is no easy way to get to this page.

A quick way to navigate to Web Part maintenance page in both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010

Option 1:

Copy the following code in browser and make changes accordingly,

http://[SERVERNAME]/_layouts/spcontnt.aspx?pageview=shared&url=[Your Web Part Page URL] (For Example: /FirmCalendar/pages/default.aspx)

Option 2: (Much easier)

Just append the querystring “?Contents=1” to any page that contains Web parts as shown below,

http://[SERVERNAME]/default.aspx?contents=1

Note: In SharePoint Server 2010, a closed Web part no longer consumes the system resources as open Web parts do.