This path assumes that you have not selected "Classic Start Menu".
If you have done so it will not appear like Wes said. From the Start, follow
the path to where the radio buttons give a choice of which "Start" display
menu to use, and swap over to "Start Menu", and you will be ok.
Rob.
| How To Display, Use, and Clear "My Recent Documents" on the Start Menu in
| Windows XP
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307875
|
| To not show your most recently used documents on the Start menu
| 1 Right-click the Start button, and then click Properties.
| 2 On the Start Menu tab, click Start menu, and then click Customize.
| 3 On the Advanced tab, UNSelect the List my most recently opened
documents
| check box.
| -----
|
| Using TweakUI
| [+] Explorer
|
| Allow Recent Documents on Start menu
| [[This check box enables the display of “Documents” on the classic start
| menu and enables the “List my most recently opened documents” checkbox on
| the Start menu customization dialog.]]
|
| Clear document history on exit
| [[This check box will control whether Explorer will clear the recent
| documents history, run dialog history and typed-URL history when
| you log off]]
|
| Maintain document history
| [[This enables the tracking of recently opened documents on the Start menu
| and on the file menu of many applications. (Note that some applications do
| not respect this setting). ]]
| -----
|
| Download TweakUI here >>>
|
| Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
|
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
|
| Tweak UI
| TweakUI.exe
| ----
|
| Tweak UI for Windows XP Guide
|
http://www.winxpsolution.com/Tweakuixppro.aspx
| -----
|
| Registry settings for TweakUI tweaks:
|
| HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
| Value Name: NoRecentDocsMenu
| Value Type: REG_DWORD
| Value Data: 0 or 1
| 0 = Yes, allow recent docs
| 1 = No, do not allow recent docs
|
| Value Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit
| Value Type: REG_DWORD
| Value Data: 0 or 1
| 0 = No don't clear
| 1 = Yes clear them
|
| Value Name: NoRecentDocsHistory
| Value Type: REG_DWORD
| Value Data: 0 or 1
| 0 = Yes history
| 1 = No history
| ----------------------
|
| If XP Pro you can use Group Edit...
| Start | Run | Type: gpedit.msc | OK |
| Navigate to >>>
| User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar\
|
| Remove the Documents menu from the Start menu.
|
| [[The Documents menu contains links to the nonprogram files that users
have
| most recently opened. It appears so that users can easily reopen their
| documents.
| If you enable this setting, the system saves document shortcuts but does
not
| display them in the Documents menu. If you later disable it or set it to
Not
| Configured, the document shortcuts saved before the setting was enabled
and
| while it was in effect appear in the Documents menu.
| Note: This setting does not prevent Windows programs from displaying
| shortcuts to recently opened documents. See the "Do not keep history of
| recently opened documents" setting.
| Also, see the "Do not keep history of recently opened documents" and
"Clear
| history of recenTly opened documents on exit" policies in this folder.
| This setting also does not hide document shortcuts displayed in the Open
| dialog box. See the "Hide the dropdown list of recent files" setting. ]]
|
| Do not keep history of recently opened documents
|
| [[Prevents the operating system and installed programs from creating and
| displaying shortcuts to recently opened documents.
| If you enable this setting, the system and Windows programs do not create
| shortcuts to documents opened while the setting is in effect. Also, they
| retain but do not display existing document shortcuts. The system empties
| the Documents menu on the Start menu, and Windows programs do not display
| shortcuts at the bottom of the File menu.
| If you disable this setting, the system defaults are enforced. Disabling
| this setting has no effect on the system.
| Note: The system saves document shortcuts in the user profile in the
| System-drive\Documents and Settings\User-name\Recent folder.
| If you enable this setting but do not enable the "Remove Documents menu
from
| Start Menu" setting, the Documents menu appears on the Start menu, but it
is
| empty.
| If you enable this setting, but then later disable it or set it to Not
| Configured, the document shortcuts saved before the setting was enabled
| reappear in the Documents menu and program File menus.
| This setting does not hide document shortcuts displayed in the Open dialog
| box.]]
|
| Clear history of recently opened documents on exit
|
| [[If you enable this setting, the system deletes shortcuts to recently
used
| document files when the user logs off. As a result, the Documents menu on
| the Start menu is always empty when the user logs on.
| If you disable or do not configure this setting, the system retains
document
| shortcuts, and when a user logs on the Documents menu appears just as it
did
| when the user logged off.
| Note: The system saves document shortcuts in the user profile in the
| System-drive\Documents and Settings\User-name\Recent folder. ]]
| -----
|
| Registry settings for gpedit.msc:
|
| HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
| Explorer
|
| The registry entries are DWORD values. A value of 1 is enabled, and a
value
| of 0 is disabled.
|
| Policy: Remove Recent Documents item from Start Menu
| Description: Removes the Recent Documents folder from the Start menu.
Also
| removes the corresponding checkbox from the Start menu customization CPL.
| Registry Value: "NoRecentDocsMenu"
|
| Policy: Clear history of recent documents on exit
| Description: Deletes all shortcuts shown in the Recent Documents menu when
| the user logs off.
| Registry Value: "ClearRecentDocsOnExit"
|
| --
| Hope this helps. Let us know.
|
| Wes
| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
|
| In | Wingman <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
| > Let me clarify, with regards to the recent document question, I have
| > found how to do it in the new start menu, but I prefer the classic
| > menu. That being said, I am trying to figure out how to do it in the
| > classic menu.
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > | >> There was a registry change that I did in win98 that stopped the
| >> recent documents from being used, does anyone if that can be done in
| >> XP?
| >>
| >> In win98 I used to be able to change the screen properties by
| >> clicking a shortcut in the system tray, I can not find where that is
| >> for XP or if it even exist.
| >>
| >> thanks
|
