AaronPrometheus Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 How can I stop Windows from added used documents and files to the recent documents dialog? I think it's a registry hack, but could anybody help me? I've never done this particualr thing before. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 Yes, right click the start button and choose properties. Click the start menu tab. Click the customize button. It's on the advanced tab at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronPrometheus Posted January 19, 2002 Author Share Posted January 19, 2002 Originally posted by mtgriffith Yes, right click the start button and choose properties. Click the start menu tab. Click the customize button. It's on the advanced tab at the bottom. Nope. I think that if it were in there I'd already have known. I've heard about a reg hack that'll prevent Windows from even saving links to that folder, I wanna know how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correllium Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 If you want to completely stop things from being added to recent documents then do this: Run gpedit.msc, go to User Configuration ... Administrative Templates ... Start Menu and Taskbar. Right click "Do not keep history of recently opened documents" go to Properties and Enable it Hope this helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 Look Again. There is a whole section at the bottom of the advanced tab called Recent Documents. There is a check box next to List my most recently used documents. Uncheck it and the My Recent Documents icon on the start menu goes away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterbug Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 Yep i got it, it annoyed me to!! thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted January 19, 2002 Share Posted January 19, 2002 Originally posted by mtgriffith Look Again. There is a whole section at the bottom of the advanced tab called Recent Documents. There is a check box next to List my most recently used documents. Uncheck it and the My Recent Documents icon on the start menu goes away. I think that only removes it from the start menu it doesn't stop windows from saving a history. Look in C:Documents and SettingsYOUR ACCOUNTRecent you will see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronPrometheus Posted January 20, 2002 Author Share Posted January 20, 2002 Thanks a lot! I had forgotten about all of that stuff. I looked at it once in Windows 2000 but gave up using them when my computer repeatedly crashed if any were activated :s, oh well. Cool beans, my friend was asking about this too. He'll be pleased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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