How to prevent stuff from being added to My Recent Docs

[Corporal Clegg]

How does one prevent all items from being added to My
Recent Documents folder? Is there any reason why this
would be a bad idea?

[Jason Haynes]

Right click start and select properties|customize|advanced. Uncheck 'list my
most recently opened documents'.

"Corporal Clegg" > wrote in message
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> How does one prevent all items from being added to My
> Recent Documents folder? Is there any reason why this
> would be a bad idea?

[pacer]

You can prevent Windows XP from listing your most recently opened documents within My Recent Documents by doing the following.
Click the Start button, click Control Panel, click Taskbar and Start Menu
Select the Start Menu tab and click the radial button beside Start Menu
Now click Customize... and then click the Advanced tab
Uncheck the 'List my most recently opened documents' checkbox
The My Recent Documents menu should no longer appear.

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Open Regedit.exe and browse to this key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Exp=
lorer]
In the right-pane, set the "NoRecentDocsHistory" to 1 and restart =
windows.

This will prevent Windows from adding the recent files to the list [and =
also the 'Recent' folder]

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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