Stop logging "Recent Documents"

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Terry

Right click the Start button and select Properties, Start Menu, Customise
(Start Menu),
Advanced tab and uncheck the box before "List my most recently opened
documents".
Exit and remember to click on Apply.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Gerry said:
Terry

Right click the Start button and select Properties, Start Menu,
Customise (Start Menu),
Advanced tab and uncheck the box before "List my most recently opened
documents".
Exit and remember to click on Apply.
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Garry,

Just a quick word of encouragement. A response such as yours is many
magnitudes better than just a link to a URL as many people do. I understand
why they do it, and I don't disagree with their reasons (usually
repitition), but your type of response not only offers a fix quickly but it
defines it in such a way that if it's not applicable the person reading it
has a much better chance of catching it right away.
I can't tell you how many times I've clicked the links (not referring to
this group specifically BTW) and found the targets either useless or so
loosely related to my problem that they were useless for my use.
The ideal solution (if it's known) is to include both; the link and the
short descrip too; then the reader has the choice of going after more info
if it's needed.

Just my 2 cents,


Pop`
 
Terry

Right click the Start button and select Properties, Start Menu, Customise
(Start Menu),
Advanced tab and uncheck the box before "List my most recently opened
documents".
Exit and remember to click on Apply.
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It did. Thank you
 
I used the tweak described in this post (disabling "my recent documents"),
and it certainly works, but anyone who wants to do this should be aware of a
couple of things: disabling recent document logging also disables the list of
programs opened using the "run" command. And, in Adobe Reader, it also
disables the recent document list there, even on Reader 8. Fortunately, the
same thing does not happen to Adobe Photoshop or MS Office programs.
Apparently the Adobe Reader uses the system's recent document list for its
own list.

However, because of the recent article in the NY Times about Zombie
computers using the recent document list to steal personal information, I
decided the secuirty issue was important enough that I could live without
those lists. One more way in which the thieves are making life more difficult
for the rest of us.

Nyco_ork
 
disables the list of programs opened using the "run" command.

IIRC, it does not disable the RunMRU listing, but clears the listing at every reboot. The listing is available during the current session.

See also:

Start Menu RUN history (RunMRU) is cleared on every restart ?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm

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Regards,

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


I used the tweak described in this post (disabling "my recent documents"),
and it certainly works, but anyone who wants to do this should be aware of a
couple of things: disabling recent document logging also disables the list of
programs opened using the "run" command. And, in Adobe Reader, it also
disables the recent document list there, even on Reader 8. Fortunately, the
same thing does not happen to Adobe Photoshop or MS Office programs.
Apparently the Adobe Reader uses the system's recent document list for its
own list.

However, because of the recent article in the NY Times about Zombie
computers using the recent document list to steal personal information, I
decided the secuirty issue was important enough that I could live without
those lists. One more way in which the thieves are making life more difficult
for the rest of us.

Nyco_ork
 
Thanks for the clarification.

Yes. That should be the case.

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Regards,

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


Your link concerns the registry entry "ClearRecentDocsOnExit". The reigstry
entry I created was simply "NoRecentDocsHistory," which seems to work
differently. When I checked the "clear list" button in Start Menu Properties,
after making the registry changes, the list was blank. Since then I have
installed one program, and it is still on the list, even after rebooting
several times. So perhaps, so far as the "run" menu is concerned, it was not
the registry change but the "clear List" operation that cleaned everything
out. I'll monitor the list as I do more installations and see if it continues
to rebuild itself.

What I say about Adobe Reader,however, still applies. I have sent them a
request to change the way that feature functiions.

Ramesh said:
IIRC, it does not disable the RunMRU listing, but clears the listing at every reboot. The listing is available during the current session.

See also:

Start Menu RUN history (RunMRU) is cleared on every restart ?:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/runmru.htm

--
Regards,

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