Hi worker,
You can't. You can however, remove access to Recent Documents.
Right-click Start. Click Properties. Click Start Menu. Click
Customize.Click Advanced. Click Clear List.
Uncheck "List my most recently opened documents". Click OK. Click Apply
then click OK.
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"Etal" <look@sig.bcause.this.is.invalid> wrote in message
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> worker wrote:
>
>> I would like to stop XP from recording data to the Recent folder.
>
> Copy&Paste what is between the 'Cut here' lines into Notepad, save as
> "NoRecent.reg" (including quotes-marks) and merge the resulting .reg-file
> with your registry. Note: watch the linebreaks, from '[' to ']' is one
> line.
>
> ------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
> "NoRecentDocsHistory"=hex:01,00,00,00
> "NoRecentDocsMenu"=hex:01,00,00,00
>
>
> ------------------------ Cut here ---------------------------
>
> The first item will stop the creation of the recent-shortcuts, so will do
> what you ask for.
>
> The second item, like mentioned in other posts, will make the now unused
> start-menu-item used to show the shortcuts not exist.
>
>
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>
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