Prevent dropping shortcuts to network shares in My Network Places

[Aaron Seet]

Win XP has this irritating habit of putting a shortcut in My Network Places
for each network share I previously accessed. How can this be stopped?

I only want to see Network Places/Web Folders _I_ specified manually (like
Sharepoint's).


Thanks,
Aaron

 

[Nico Tomacelli [MSFT]]

Hi Aaron,

If you are running Windows XP Pro, you can do this by doing the following:

Start - Run - gpedit.msc
Click on User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Desktop.
Double click "Do not add shares of recently opened documents to My Network
Places". and select Enabled.
Click Ok.

Log out and then back in and it should not longer happen.

Thanks,
Nico Tomacelli
Microsoft Corp.
US - Windows Core:SOLID

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[Aaron Seet]

Someone suggested inserting a new DWORD value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explor
er\NoRecentDocsNetHood
and setting it to 1.

Seems to work ok. I guess the GPO method is more elegant.


Aaron