What registries enable MRUs?

[Jack]

Most Recent opened documents is disabled.
How to set it back to enabled
Thanks
Jack

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Control Panel>Taskbar and Start menu>Start menu tab. For Start menu, click
Customize, the the Advanced tab. At the bottom is the option to show Recent
documents. For Classic menu, click Customize, and the options will be
obvious.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Jack,

Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu
below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not
to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank

Here are those registry keys:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer



Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean

Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs


To control Recent Docs on Start menu:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu

Key Name: MaxRecentDocs
Key Type: DWORD
Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10



If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if
you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually

Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create
it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the
explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above


--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)

==============================

Gary,

Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it
wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing

 

[Newbie Coder]

Jack,

Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu
below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not
to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank

Here are those registry keys:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer



Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean

Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs


To control Recent Docs on Start menu:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu

Key Name: MaxRecentDocs
Key Type: DWORD
Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10



If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if
you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually

Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create
it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the
explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above


--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)

==============================

Gary,

Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it
wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing

 

[Newbie Coder]

Jack,

Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu
below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not
to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank

Here are those registry keys:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer



Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean

Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs


To control Recent Docs on Start menu:

User Key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


All Users:


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer


Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI
Key Type: DWORD
Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu

Key Name: MaxRecentDocs
Key Type: DWORD
Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10



If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if
you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually

Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create
it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the
explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above


--
Newbie Coder
(It's just a name)

==============================

Gary,

Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it
wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing