Clear Recent documents on exit
| Operating System |
windows 95 and onward |
| category |
start menu and taskbar |
Windows maintain a list of documents open in recent past. This list is maintained under "Documents" in start menu. This tweak will allow you to clear the list on shutdown.
Steps for applying this Tweak
- Open your registry
- go to one of the following
- For change to occur for current user
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer
- For change to occur for all user
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer
- Create or modify if exists value called "ClearRecentDocsOnExit"
- set value as 0 to disable or 1 to enable
- restart windows or logout for setting to take effect
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