Disabling recent Documents listing in XP

[Guest]

I'm running XP in Classic display mode.

When I click Start there's a Documents item that shows all recently opened
documents. How do I disable it (or, better yet, on the longshot it's
possible, just specify certain files that I don't want to have shown in this
list)?

Thanks.

Jay

 

[Andrew Murray]

Right click start button, Properties

Click the radio button for "Start Menu"

Go to the Advanced Tab.

Under "Recent Documents" uncheck "List my most recent documents"
to turn off "Recent Documents" then OK out of the Dialogues, click Start and
see that the Recent documents is not displayed. (repeat & reverse above
procedure to display Recent Docs again.)

Two your other question: No, it basically shows *all* opened documents and
no control that I know of over what file types you can display.

The only option is to turn it off, or Clear the List (from same dialogue box
as above) periodically.

I don't know if TweakUI (PowerToys from www.microsoft.com) would have an
option to do what you want (it would certainly be a useful thing if
PowerToys did ahve that option)that would be one thing PowerToys could do
that would be very handy).

 

[Kangaroo]

TweakUI (click on the Explorer tab) has options for:

Allow Recent Documents on Start menu
Clear document history on exit (I think that means logoff)
Maintain document history

HTH