Guest Jack Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Most Recent opened documents is disabled. How to set it back to enabled Thanks Jack
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: What registries enable MRUs? Control Panel>Taskbar and Start menu>Start menu tab. For Start menu, click Customize, the the Advanced tab. At the bottom is the option to show Recent documents. For Classic menu, click Customize, and the options will be obvious. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message news:O46sclb4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Most Recent opened documents is disabled. > How to set it back to enabled > Thanks > Jack >
Guest Newbie Coder Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: What registries enable MRUs? Jack, Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank Here are those registry keys: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs To control Recent Docs on Start menu: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu Key Name: MaxRecentDocs Key Type: DWORD Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10 If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== Gary, Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:OVFDGAd4HHA.5880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Control Panel>Taskbar and Start menu>Start menu tab. For Start menu, click > Customize, the the Advanced tab. At the bottom is the option to show Recent > documents. For Classic menu, click Customize, and the options will be > obvious. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message > news:O46sclb4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > Most Recent opened documents is disabled. > > How to set it back to enabled > > Thanks > > Jack > > > >
Guest Newbie Coder Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: What registries enable MRUs? Jack, Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank Here are those registry keys: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs To control Recent Docs on Start menu: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu Key Name: MaxRecentDocs Key Type: DWORD Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10 If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== Gary, Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:OVFDGAd4HHA.5880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Control Panel>Taskbar and Start menu>Start menu tab. For Start menu, click > Customize, the the Advanced tab. At the bottom is the option to show Recent > documents. For Classic menu, click Customize, and the options will be > obvious. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message > news:O46sclb4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > Most Recent opened documents is disabled. > > How to set it back to enabled > > Thanks > > Jack > > > >
Guest Newbie Coder Posted August 18, 2007 Posted August 18, 2007 Re: What registries enable MRUs? Jack, Although what Gary said is the way to turn them back on (see RecentDocsMenu below) if the Policy\Explorer registry key exists with the correct subkey to not to save MRU's... then it won't work as it will constantly be blank Here are those registry keys: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: ClearRecentDocsOnExit Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = delete on shutdown, 0 = don't clean Key Name: NoRecentDocsHistory Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = don't save recent docs, 0 = enable recent docs To control Recent Docs on Start menu: User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer All Users: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Key Name: RecentDocsMenu <--- This is the key what Gary suggested via GUI Key Type: DWORD Value: 1 = remove from START menu, 0 = add to START menu Key Name: MaxRecentDocs Key Type: DWORD Value: no. of recent docs. to display in decimal. Example: 10 If you remove RecentDocsMend (set to 1) it will be removed straight away, but if you ser to zero again a reboot is required by doing it this way usually Note: EXPLORER key doesn't exist in the registy by default so you need to create it. Simply done with right-click the POLICIES key | New | Key... Highlight the explorer key then in the right pane use the registry entries of the above -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== Gary, Tried to reply to your comment in another post about the history... but it wouldn't let me. I tried twice & the same thing -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) ============================== "Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message news:O46sclb4HHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Most Recent opened documents is disabled. > How to set it back to enabled > Thanks > Jack > >
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