Toro_Pita said:
Question: How To: Reduce the number of items shown on listed on the "My
Recent Documents" pane?
I have tried the following solution but was not successful. I could not
locate the reg key listed below. It does not exist on my Win XP Pro
system. I
know the max value is 15 items but how can i reduce that to say 4, 5 or
any
number less than 15?
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Go to Start/Run/Regedit and modify the MaxRecentDocs value.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre nt
Version\Policies\Explorer
"MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019
Or download the edit on line 210, open it via Notepad and change the dword
value, then merge.
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So how many maximum documents do you want to see at a time? The "19" value
is hexadecimal so that is 25 items in the list. That's a long list. Did
you reboot so the change actually got effected?
So just where did you find the above KB article? I found
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=292504 but it doesn't anything close to
your copy. If a data item (with its value) is not defined then the default
gets used. That means YOU have to *create* the registry key or data item to
change from using the default. Read
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/828/ and note it says to
CREATE a new value (under the assumption that it won't be there because the
setup assumes the default value will be used).
Are you logging onto a domain? If so, have you asked your IT dept. if the
policy they push onto your domain login will change this value? It is,
after all, a *policies* setting.
