Is it possible to stop the Recent Folder acctivity.

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worker said:
I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
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Get Microsoft's TweakUI powertoy for Windows XP. The following options
might satisfy your wants:

Explorer:
Clear document history on exit: enable
(exit = logoff)

Common Dialogs:
Enable auto-complete: disable
Remember previously-used filenames: disable
 
worker said:
I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
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Right-click on the Taskbar, Properties, (Start Menu) Customize, Advanced,
uncheck 'list my most recently opened documents', and click Clear List.
 
Cat_in_awe said:
Right-click on the Taskbar, Properties, (Start Menu) Customize,
Advanced, uncheck 'list my most recently opened documents', and click
Clear List.
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Sorry, this doesn't exactly do what you asked for. This removes the 'Recent
Documents' item from your Start Menu, but doesn't actually stop the
shortcuts from being added to the My Recent Documents folder.
 
Rightclick Start, Properties. Click Customize and clear the checkbox that
says "List my most recently opened documents."
 
worker said:
I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
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Hi. Go to Control Panel/ Administrative Tools/ Group Policy Editor/ User Configuration/ Administrative Templates/ Start Menu and Taskbar. In the right pane doubleclick Do not keep history of recently opened documents and place a tick in Enabled.
Mark
 
worker said:
I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
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Copy&Paste what is between the 'Cut here' lines into Notepad,
save as "NoRecent.reg" (including quotes-marks) and merge the
resulting .reg-file with your registry. Note: watch the
linebreaks, from '[' to ']' is one line.

------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=hex:01,00,00,00
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00


------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------

The first item will stop the creation of the recent-shortcuts, so
will do what you ask for.

The second item, like mentioned in other posts, will make the now
unused start-menu-item used to show the shortcuts not exist.
 
Hi worker,

You can't. You can however, remove access to Recent Documents.

Right-click Start. Click Properties. Click Start Menu. Click
Customize.Click Advanced. Click Clear List.
Uncheck "List my most recently opened documents". Click OK. Click Apply
then click OK.


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thecreator




Etal said:
worker said:
I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
Click to expand...

Copy&Paste what is between the 'Cut here' lines into Notepad, save as
"NoRecent.reg" (including quotes-marks) and merge the resulting .reg-file
with your registry. Note: watch the linebreaks, from '[' to ']' is one
line.

------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=hex:01,00,00,00
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00


------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------

The first item will stop the creation of the recent-shortcuts, so will do
what you ask for.

The second item, like mentioned in other posts, will make the now unused
start-menu-item used to show the shortcuts not exist.


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Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion.

Please followup in the newsgroup.
E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control.
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Hi worker,To disable recent documents history:-


  • Go to Start -> Run -> type regedit and enter
  • Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer
  • Create a DWORD value with the key NoRecentDocsHistory and set the value to 1
  • Done, you have just disable recent documents history.
  • Please logoff or restart your pc to get the recent documents history take effect.
Regards
chris

Please reply at your convenience.
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thecreator said:
Hi worker,

You can't.
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Wrong. 'worker' can do it[*1] as i showed in my post. Try what i
posted if you are interested. Re-login after merging the
reg-entry for it to take effect.

[*1] the IT is not present here because you haven't fixed the
broken news-client from ms you are using.


And the below was posted by several others already.
 
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