Guest Danny Smith Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Hi folks, Each week I empty the list of My Recent Documents (just to keep things clear and organised) but then I find that thereafter whenever I open a document (such as a Word document, image file etc.) it doesn't appear on the My Recent Documents list - as if I didn't even open it - it just says it's empty. I've found a workaround, and that is to go to C:\Documents and Settings\JohnDoe\Recent, go to Properties, Security tab, and manually add my username to the permissions with Full Control, but the next week when I empty the list I have to do it again. Does anyone know of any way to 'fix it' so that I don't have to keep following that process every time I empty the list? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time, Danny.
Guest Newbie Coder Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: My Recent Docs issue Danny, Microsoft Office have their own recent file list [drive letter]\Documents and Settings\[username here]\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent If you are deleting the recent files weekly why not disable them totally? Registry Key (Current User): ============================== Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] ; Delete Recent files when Windows exits "ClearRecentDocsOnExit"=dword:00000001 ; Disable Recent Docs "NoRecentDocsHistory"=dword:00000001 ; Remove Recent Docs from Start Menu "NoRecentDocsMenu"=dword:00000001 ============================== There are 3 DWORDS above Comments are after each ';' & won't be imported into the registry You can do the same for all users by creating 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer' ============================== What you are asking though is a permissions issue on that particular directory. You want to know why your permissions are being lost Danny. Do yourself a favour and spoof your e-mail address unless you like to be spammed. Example: danny@nospamplease.hello -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) "Danny Smith" <dannysmithuk@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:IoRki.25176$ri2.5421@newsfe5-win.ntli.net... > Hi folks, > > Each week I empty the list of My Recent Documents (just to keep things clear > and organised) but then I find that thereafter whenever I open a document > (such as a Word document, image file etc.) it doesn't appear on the My > Recent Documents list - as if I didn't even open it - it just says it's > empty. > > I've found a workaround, and that is to go to C:\Documents and > Settings\JohnDoe\Recent, go to Properties, Security tab, and manually add my > username to the permissions with Full Control, but the next week when I > empty the list I have to do it again. Does anyone know of any way to 'fix > it' so that I don't have to keep following that process every time I empty > the list? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks for your time, Danny. > >
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