My Recent Documents won't save overnight

[Guest]

I use Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition
2003. I use the feature My Recent Documents, which is in the Control Pane.
Task Bar and Start Menu/Customize/Advanced/Recent Documents at the bottom. I
have it checked, and usually this feature works well. Lately, all my saved
and closed documents are saved in My Recent Documents when I finish work at
night. In the morning I usually reboot, and begin by going to My Recent
Documents to pick up where I left off. For the past couple days, maybe a
week, My Recent Documents has only indicated "empty" when I go to Start/My
Recent Documents. Can anyone help me with this?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Mordido,

Set the ClearRecentDocsOnExit registry value to 0. If you're using Windows
XP Professional, you may also use the Group Policy Editor and set the policy
to Not Configured.

ClearRecentDocsOnExit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/regentry/93171.asp

You may also TweakUI to enable/disable this feature.

TweakUI v2.00 for Windows XP/XP MCE [564 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

TweakUI v2.10 for Windows XP SP1/XP MCE/2003 [147 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Here is the correct URL.

Policy Settings for the Start Menu in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q292504

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Policy:Clear history of recent documents on exit
Descriptioneletes all shortcuts shown in the Recent Documents menu when
the user logs off.
Registry Value:"ClearRecentDocsOnExit"
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--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

Hi Mordido,

Set the ClearRecentDocsOnExit registry value to 0. If you're using Windows
XP Professional, you may also use the Group Policy Editor and set the
policy to Not Configured.

ClearRecentDocsOnExit:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/regentry/93171.asp

You may also TweakUI to enable/disable this feature.

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[Guest]

Ramesh: I appreciate your help, but I'm not sure how to do this. I figured
you wanted me to go to regedit (I did), used Find, and typed in
ClearRecentDocsOnExit where I would've replaced 1 with 0 or whatever number
was there with 0, but Find couldn't Find ClearRecentDocsOnExit. Could you
expound a bit more, please?

 

[Guest]

Hi again, Ramesh: I'm trying to figure out how to use your second solution,
i.e. You may also TweakUI to enable/disable this feature.

TweakUI v2.00 for Windows XP/XP MCE [564 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

I've installed it. I'll reboot to make sure it's solid in the registry.
Can you provide any help now that it's installed, i.e. specifics as to where
I go in the tweak thing, or how I go about whatever?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Open Tweak UI
Click Explorer branch in the left
Uncheck "Clear document history on exit"

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

Hi again, Ramesh: I'm trying to figure out how to use your second
solution,
i.e. You may also TweakUI to enable/disable this feature.

TweakUI v2.00 for Windows XP/XP MCE [564 KB].
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

I've installed it. I'll reboot to make sure it's solid in the registry.
Can you provide any help now that it's installed, i.e. specifics as to
where
I go in the tweak thing, or how I go about whatever?

Here is the correct URL.

Policy Settings for the Start Menu in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q292504

-------------------------------------------------
Policy:Clear history of recent documents on exit
Descriptioneletes all shortcuts shown in the Recent Documents menu when
the user logs off.
Registry Value:"ClearRecentDocsOnExit"
-------------------------------------------------

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org



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