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Clearing recent documents
Name: Ken Date: November 3, 2003 at 22:45:23 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 128
Comment:
Hi
I have a Windows 2000 machine I wish to clear the previous documents from displaying when I go to start/documents. In Windows 98 I just delete the content in the recent folder but can't seem to see where the recent files are stored in Windows 2000
Name: uselessmitch Date: November 3, 2003 at 23:27:32 Pacific
Reply:
Start> Settings> Taskbar and Start menu> Advance (tab)> Clear
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Response Number 2
Name: John Middleton Date: November 4, 2003 at 06:37:32 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, your recent files are in the C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\Recent.
delete these.
the other way is in the task bar properties. click the advanced tab and click clear.
John
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Response Number 3
Name: bookn2 Date: November 6, 2003 at 12:05:43 Pacific
Reply:
Probelm with John Middleton's first suggestion: if your profiles aren't under Documents and Settings, then this won't work. This is often the case if you upgraded your machine from Windows NT 4 (the path will then, by default, be C:\WINNT\PROFILES)
The path %USERPROFILE%\Recent will always point to the right folder (and is shorter to type too!!)
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