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December 10th 05, 08:00 PM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system.
None of the Policy keys/values exist by default. You actually need to create subkeys/values upto that level. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Toro_Pita" wrote in message ... Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
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December 10th 05, 08:40 PM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My
Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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December 10th 05, 09:02 PM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
"Toro_Pita" wrote in message
... Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So how many maximum documents do you want to see at a time? The "19" value is hexadecimal so that is 25 items in the list. That's a long list. Did you reboot so the change actually got effected? So just where did you find the above KB article? I found http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292504 but it doesn't anything close to your copy. If a data item (with its value) is not defined then the default gets used. That means YOU have to *create* the registry key or data item to change from using the default. Read http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/828/ and note it says to CREATE a new value (under the assumption that it won't be there because the setup assumes the default value will be used). Are you logging onto a domain? If so, have you asked your IT dept. if the policy they push onto your domain login will change this value? It is, after all, a *policies* setting.
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December 11th 05, 05:58 AM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
Apologies for the incorrect time in my post!
My system clock is now fixed. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. None of the Policy keys/values exist by default. You actually need to create subkeys/values upto that level. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Toro_Pita" wrote in message ... Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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December 11th 05, 09:44 AM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
LOL! Yet to replace the CMOS battery. Right now I'm sync'ing the clock as a
temporary measure. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote in message ... Darn, and I thought you were just that good - responding 40 minutes before the question was even asked! For a moment I thought you got your crystal ball back from the shop. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Apologies for the incorrect time in my post! My system clock is now fixed. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. None of the Policy keys/values exist by default. You actually need to create subkeys/values upto that level. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Toro_Pita" wrote in message ... Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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December 11th 05, 12:05 PM
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How To: Reduce the number of items shown on "My Recent Documents"
Darn, and I thought you were just that good - responding 40 minutes before
the question was even asked! For a moment I thought you got your crystal ball back from the shop. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Apologies for the incorrect time in my post! My system clock is now fixed. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. None of the Policy keys/values exist by default. You actually need to create subkeys/values upto that level. -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User Windows XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com "Toro_Pita" wrote in message ... Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My Recent Documents" pane? I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro system. I know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or any number less than 15? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt Version\Policies\Explorer "MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019 Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword value, then merge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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