Recently used documents list: How to manage?

[Guest Opinicus]

Using WinXP Home with all updates etc in place.

 

I've begun making use of the recently used documents list (Start >

Documents) but have noticed that the list keeps track of things that I don't

consider "documents" like sound and video files. Is there some way to

specify the files that are kept track of in this list? Say only Word and

Excel files for example? Or can I exclude files with certain extensions from

the list?

 

TIA

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Bob

http://www.kanyak.com

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: Recently used documents list: How to manage?

 

Opinicus wrote:

> Using WinXP Home with all updates etc in place.

>

> I've begun making use of the recently used documents list (Start >

> Documents) but have noticed that the list keeps track of things that I don't

> consider "documents" like sound and video files. Is there some way to

> specify the files that are kept track of in this list? Say only Word and

> Excel files for example? Or can I exclude files with certain extensions from

> the list?

>

> TIA

 

C:\documents and settings\username\my recent documents

 

You can manage it. But I'm not sure there is a filter to apply.

If you don't find any more help, you can just make a startup batch file

to do:

del "C:\documents and settings\username\my recent\documents\*.wav"

etc

[Guest Opinicus]

Re: Recently used documents list: How to manage?

 

"Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote

>> the list keeps track of things that I don't consider "documents" like

>> sound and video files. Is there some way to specify the files that are

>> kept track of in this list? Say only Word and Excel files for example? Or

>> can I exclude files with certain extensions from the list?

> C:\documents and settings\username\my recent documents

> You can manage it. But I'm not sure there is a filter to apply.

> If you don't find any more help, you can just make a startup batch file to

> do:

> del "C:\documents and settings\username\my recent\documents\*.wav"

> etc

And it needed managing. There was stuff in there that disappeared months

ago.

 

Unfortunately the "del" method won't work because all of the extensions are

".lnk" however I have done a lot of manual cleaning out.

 

--

Bob

http://www.kanyak.com

[Guest Big_Al]

Re: Recently used documents list: How to manage?

 

Opinicus wrote:

> "Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote

>

>>> the list keeps track of things that I don't consider "documents" like

>>> sound and video files. Is there some way to specify the files that are

>>> kept track of in this list? Say only Word and Excel files for example? Or

>>> can I exclude files with certain extensions from the list?

>

>> C:\documents and settings\username\my recent documents

>

>> You can manage it. But I'm not sure there is a filter to apply.

>> If you don't find any more help, you can just make a startup batch file to

>> do:

>> del "C:\documents and settings\username\my recent\documents\*.wav"

>> etc

> And it needed managing. There was stuff in there that disappeared months

> ago.

>

> Unfortunately the "del" method won't work because all of the extensions are

> ".lnk" however I have done a lot of manual cleaning out.

>

Same on mine. It seems to filter some place on its own. I guess it

just keeps the last 1000 items and then does a sort and filter when you

display the 'recent' item on the menu.

I'll keep an eye on this thread, I'll be interested to see if a better

solution comes out.