Privacy: Recent documents. Stop this being recorded.

[Rob]

I have stopped the Recent Documents folder appearing in the Start
menu. But how can I stop the information being recorded in the
"Recent" folder for each user?

Similar privacy question for the "Run" menu. Can I prevent the list of
previous Runs appearing?

 

[Anando [MVP]]

Hello Rob,

I am not sure if you can entirely disable the ability of Windows to record
the recently opened items, but you can definietly disable them form showing
up the way you did.

You can remove individual entries from the Run MRU by editing the registry
in the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

Just select the string value and hit delete. As usual, you have to be
extremely careful while editing the registry as doing so incorrectly may
render your computer inoperable.

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


My Blog
http://www.anando.org/blog

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Enable the "NoRecentDocsHistory" policy setting. See:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NoRecentDocsHistory

Note that you can automate this setting using the TweakUI PowerToy from Microsoft.

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

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I have stopped the Recent Documents folder appearing in the Start
menu. But how can I stop the information being recorded in the
"Recent" folder for each user?

Similar privacy question for the "Run" menu. Can I prevent the list of
previous Runs appearing?

 

[Rob]

Enable the "NoRecentDocsHistory" policy setting. See:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=NoRecentDocsHistory

Note that you can automate this setting using the TweakUI PowerToy from Microsoft.

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

Thank you both for your very fast answers. In fact I have manged to
find the answers now by Googling.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm

and

http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/545/

I have TweakUI, but for some reason it didn't seem to do the trick.