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Clear recent documents list on logoff

by Steve Wiseman on December 15, 2006 · 0 comments

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Many times when using windows, your recent documents list gets loaded up with documents you don’t want people to see:

Recent Documents

You can tell windows to clear it every time you logoff. You will need to fire up regedit and browse to this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add a dword value named ClearRecentDocsOnExit and set it to 1

Now every time you exit windows, your recent documents list will be cleared.

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