My Recent Documents

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How do I save my recent documents? I have turned on this feature in Start
Menu Properities, but documents are not saved after I re boot the computer.
This worked fine until about two weeks ago. Help!
 
Yes, I downloaded a newer version about two weeks ago and probably made some
adjustments. I just opened tweak ui and looked for something to check or un
check, but could not find anything related to my issue. Do you have a
specific location in tweak ui that I should check or un check?
 
Hi Bob,

Yep.

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). ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
Hi Wes, I tried your suggestion and found that "save my recent documents" in
Tweak UI was already checked. I wrote a test note in MS Word and it did
appear, but when I re booted the computer it was gone the the word "emply"
appeared. Any additional suggestions? As I said, it was working well until
about two weeks ago when I downloaded a more current version of Tweak UI.

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Bob,

Yep.

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). ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Bob said:
Yes, I downloaded a newer version about two weeks ago and probably made
some adjustments. I just opened tweak ui and looked for something to
check or un check, but could not find anything related to my issue. Do
you have a specific location in tweak ui that I should check or un check?
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Hi Bob,

I should have though of this before.

Do you have any software like Disk Cleaner, EasyCleaner, Empty Temp Folders,
MRU-Blaster, cccleaner or similar. Some of these programs delete the My
Recent Documents folder or the contents of that folder.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Bob said:
Hi Wes, I tried your suggestion and found that "save my recent documents"
in Tweak UI was already checked. I wrote a test note in MS Word and it
did appear, but when I re booted the computer it was gone the the word
"emply" appeared. Any additional suggestions? As I said, it was working
well until about two weeks ago when I downloaded a more current version
of Tweak UI.

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Bob,

Yep.

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 documentsâ€
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). ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Bob said:
Yes, I downloaded a newer version about two weeks ago and probably made
some adjustments. I just opened tweak ui and looked for something to
check or un check, but could not find anything related to my issue. Do
you have a specific location in tweak ui that I should check or un
check?

:

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

Have you been messing with TweakUI?

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Bob <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
How do I save my recent documents? I have turned on this feature in
Start Menu Properities, but documents are not saved after I re boot
the computer. This worked fine until about two weeks ago. Help!
Click to expand...
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Click to expand...
 
Hi Wes, Thanks very much for your help. The problem is SOLVED.

Bob said:
Hi Wes, I tried your suggestion and found that "save my recent documents" in
Tweak UI was already checked. I wrote a test note in MS Word and it did
appear, but when I re booted the computer it was gone the the word "emply"
appeared. Any additional suggestions? As I said, it was working well until
about two weeks ago when I downloaded a more current version of Tweak UI.

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Bob,

Yep.

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). ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Bob said:
Yes, I downloaded a newer version about two weeks ago and probably made
some adjustments. I just opened tweak ui and looked for something to
check or un check, but could not find anything related to my issue. Do
you have a specific location in tweak ui that I should check or un check?

:

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

Have you been messing with TweakUI?

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Bob <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
How do I save my recent documents? I have turned on this feature in
Start Menu Properities, but documents are not saved after I re boot the
computer. This worked fine until about two weeks ago. Help!
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Hi Bob,

Glad to hear it.

What was the culprit?

Enquiring minds want to know.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Bob said:
Hi Wes, Thanks very much for your help. The problem is SOLVED.

Bob said:
Hi Wes, I tried your suggestion and found that "save my recent
documents" in Tweak UI was already checked. I wrote a test note in MS
Word and it did appear, but when I re booted the computer it was gone
the the word "emply" appeared. Any additional suggestions? As I said,
it was working well until about two weeks ago when I downloaded a more
current version of Tweak UI.

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Bob,

Yep.

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 documentsâ€
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). ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Bob <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Yes, I downloaded a newer version about two weeks ago and probably made
some adjustments. I just opened tweak ui and looked for something to
check or un check, but could not find anything related to my issue. Do
you have a specific location in tweak ui that I should check or un
check?

:

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

Have you been messing with TweakUI?

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Bob <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
How do I save my recent documents? I have turned on this feature in
Start Menu Properities, but documents are not saved after I re boot
the computer. This worked fine until about two weeks ago. Help!
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