Recent files

[Majki Majk]

In documents and settings ->how to switch off 'My recent
documents'...why are some file names blue(compressed files)-why's that
and is that neccessary, if not, how to switch it off ?

 

[John]

When you say "switch off MY Recent Documents" do you mean from the start menu?

If so....right click start>Properties>Customise button>Advanced tab>and at
the bottom of this tab you can unselect the bos for Recent documents

 

[John]

Compressed files are really to save hard disk space, if you want to turn it
of, select the folder you want to decompress...right click the
folder>properties>on the general tab select the "advanced" button and
deselect the "compress contents to save disk space" box

 

[Majki Majk]

When you say "switch off MY Recent Documents" do you mean from the start menu?

If so....right click start>Properties>Customise button>Advanced tab>and at
the bottom of this tab you can unselect the bos for Recent documents

When you say "switch off MY Recent Documents" do you mean from the start menu?

If so....right click start>Properties>Customise button>Advanced tab>and at
the bottom of this tab you can unselect the bos for Recent documents

I knew for this one, i done it. But the recent files are gatehered
without concern to that on the secon location too.
This second location is in Application data.

?

 

[Etal]

I knew for this one, i done it. But the recent files are gatehered
without concern to that on the secon location too.
This second location is in Application data.

In 'Application data'? Don't you mean it's at
'%UserProfile%\My Recent Documents\'.
(e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Recent Documents\)

Anyways, i don't think there is a GUI to administer
"NoRecentDocsHistory".

Copy and paste the below to a Text-file (with Notepad); save
as "FileName.reg" (use quotation-marks to get the right
file-extension); right-click the saved file in Explorer and
choose to Merge.

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REGEDIT4

; To implement for every user-account on the machine use:
;[HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
;
; This will be overridden for the logged in 'current user'
; if setting exist at:
[HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
;
"NoRecentDocsHistory"=hex:01,00,00,00
;
; If you use the above, you'll probably also want to use:
;
"NoRecentDocsMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00
;
; There needs to be an empty line below this one

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