IE's history shows the files that I was opened???

[Guest]

I want to know why the Internet Explorer's history shows the files that I was
opened, everytime when I click the "History" button in IE, it shows up all
the web sites that I was surf and the file name that I was opened like
document file, excel file and pdf file. I though it only shows what web
site/page I've been before. I don't want someone know that what and where the
file is. Also I don't want everytime go to "Tools > Internet Options > Clear
History" to clear the history(I have set "0" Days to keep pages in history).
Anyone can help? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

The history bar in IE is refering to entries within the start menu Recent
Documents section. There is no way to take out this functionality because
the History *IS* the Recent Documents folder.

You might try turning off the Start Menu's settings to display recently used
documents, and see if that in turn hides those files from IE's history.

 

[Guest]

The start menu "Recent Documents" was remove since the Windows XP installed.
According to what you said, is it mean I can't do anything to disable this
function(not show the file I was open in History)?

 

[Guest]

The history bar in IE will only show documents if it is in "By Order Visited
Today" mode.

Try going to the Taskbar properties, Start Menu tab, Customize... button,
Advanced tab, then under Recent Documents, click "Clear List". This is also
where you can set the option to display Recently Opened Documents on the
Start Menu.

Also, if you use TweakUI (search for XP Powertoys on the Microsoft site),
you can set options such as clearing the recently files list at log on, etc.
TweakUI is a program Microsoft released that exposes easy to set options for
features not normally exposed in the user interface without having to modify
the registry directly.