Recent documents not showing

[Nicholas Hall]

I have a problem that has just seemed to appear over the last day.

The problem I am having is in the start menu the recent documents bit is not
showing any more.
I can enable it and it does show up, but when I reboot my computer it
disappears again.
I go and right click the orb and click properties and I see that the check
box for "Store and display a list of recently opened files" is unchecked
again.

I have not tweaked my system and the only thing I have installed lately was
Firefox 3 rc3. I have got IE7 as my default browser.

I am at a loss. I know this is a small problem, but it was handy to have the
list of recently opened files to hand.

I wondered if any one could help me out with this problem.

NIK

 

[Sinclair]

Take a look here:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89631-recent-programs-not-being-remembered.html

 

[Nicholas Hall]

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately that covered recent programs and not
recent documents.

Thanks again anyway

NIK

 

[Gerry]

Nicholas

Is there an option to click on Apply and then OK? If yes are you just
clicking on OK?


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[Nicholas Hall]

I am clicking apply and then OK.

NIK

Nicholas

Is there an option to click on Apply and then OK? If yes are you just
clicking on OK?


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Hope this helps

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[SG]

Nicholas

Is there an option to click on Apply and then OK? If yes are you just
clicking on OK?


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Gerry
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Clicking Apply is the exact same as clicking OK as far as making a change
take effect. The Apply option appears when there are more than one Tab so a
user that wants to make several changes can do so without the the menu
closing. In others words if I were to make a change on one Tab then click
Apply that will take affect right away, then I move to the next Tab and make
another change and so on. When I'm done I then click OK and the menu will
then close.

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[Gerry]

SG

You may be right but I am not convinced.



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[Gerry]

Nicholas

Line 55 applied for Windows Xp -not sure about Windows Vista
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Otherwise I am at a loss.


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Gerry
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[SG]

SG

You may be right but I am not convinced.



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Gerry
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This describes it somewhat.....
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/36z56skf(VS.80).aspx

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[Gerry]

SG

The Article talks about all changes with regard to the Apply button and
using OK for a single change. My inclination remains that is safer to always
click on the Apply button, whenever there is an Apply button not "greyed"
out, rather than OK to be sure that all aspects of the change are covered.
The Article implies that OK is not then needed. If the user clicks on Apply
this does not, however, close the Window so you need to do something to
achieve that and clicking on OK does that.

Technically you are right where only one change is being made. However,when
offering advice in these newsgroups all levels of computer skills are
encountered and offering a fail safe approach, it may go beyond what is
needed, is simpler and does no harm.


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Gerry
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[SG]

SG

The Article talks about all changes with regard to the Apply button and
using OK for a single change. My inclination remains that is safer to
always click on the Apply button, whenever there is an Apply button not
"greyed" out, rather than OK to be sure that all aspects of the change are
covered. The Article implies that OK is not then needed. If the user
clicks on Apply this does not, however, close the Window so you need to do
something to achieve that and clicking on OK does that.

Technically you are right where only one change is being made.
However,when offering advice in these newsgroups all levels of computer
skills are encountered and offering a fail safe approach, it may go beyond
what is needed, is simpler and does no harm.


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Regards

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Well I posted that quick link, but I'm certainly not going out of my way to
convince you. I know the difference and you can most certainly can do as you
choose. If you feel Apply and OK is necessary then by all means do it, after
all just a few mouse clicks that does no harm. As for offering a fail safe
approach, your reply to Kelly's Korner line 55 is for XP. These are Reg
files for XP only as it's stated, so I don't think that's such a fail safe
approach, do you?

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