Recent documents - how to exclude a filetype ?

Hello all,

This morning I again took a look at the, rather cluttered, "recent
documents" folder, and asked myself if I could not simply stop certain
filetypes from being stored in there (it makes no sense to me to see stuff
like folders and auto-run scripts in there).

A bit of googeling turned up the "EditFlags" entry in the registry, and some
more of the same the needed value for it, 0x40000 (FTA_NoRecentDocs).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...attributeflags

Alas, when I applied that value to both the "folder" as well as the
"vbsfile" registry entries and clearing the "recent documents" folder (and,
for good measure, a reboot) showed that both still where being stored.

tl;dr:
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to stop a certain filetype from being
stored in the "recent documents" folder, and if so, how.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser