My MRU list has got up and gone ...

[Steve Rindsberg]

This is odd. I don't honestly know whether this happened recently or has been
going on all along but ...

Win XP Pro SP2
PPT 2003 SP2

There are no files on the Most Recently Used list. There *is* no MRU list, in
fact.

Weirder: in Tools, Options, General tab, the "Recently used file list: XX
entries" checkbox and all are grayed out. Not available. No touch-em.

I've gone so far as to check the likely Options registry entries from a system
where it DOES still work right and replicate them on this computer, but either
I missed the "magic" one/s or that isn't the answer. feh.

Detect and repair does neither.

Anybody seen this one before?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Have you run Ad-aware lately? You didn't check the box to remove MRU
entries at the end of the run, did you?

Does your virus scanned block MRU's? Sometimes these types of protection
programs consider MRU lists to be security risks.

Bill

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Local expert wants to know: Do you have SpyBot Search and Destroy installed?
And, are there any docs in the system-wide MRU list under Start?

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Good questions.

Local expert wants to know: Do you have SpyBot Search and Destroy installed?
No.

And, are there any docs in the system-wide MRU list under Start?

Yes, but none from Office. And in checking that, I find that Word's MRU list
has been tromped as well. (What's that they say on the lower East Side?
"Trompe! Oy!")

But that's a very good clue ... the system MRU list has some files but it's all
old stuff. Nothing I've looked at lately is on there, so perhaps there's an
AHA.

Bill:
entries at the end of the run, did you?

It's been a while, and I probably did let it remove MRU entries; usually do.
But that wouldn't have prevented new entries from being added since.
programs consider MRU lists to be security risks.

Not on this particular computer, of that I'm certain.

I have a hunch that it's a problem I made for myself. To wit, when setting up
the machine, like an idjit I started right in installing everything under the
original admin account instead of creating a new account with admin privs and
installing to that. That led to some renaming of accounts and shuffling of
privs and I'm guessing that's what warped its little mind.

I may have to send the HDD off to Brian for a bit of joisey-style adjustment.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Update. It looks like my original "aha" about user accounts was correct.

I created a new user, logged in as him (or her but since I'm a him, I assume he
is too, unless I'm impersonating her ... let's not do this. It's making my
head hurt.)

Anyhow, logged in as the new user, the system and PPT MRUs are behaving.

Now all I gotta do is install everything again. O. Joy.