Dear sirs,

how can i stop windows to saving the shortcuts in document of start menu.

Again from:
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/registry_tips.htm#nodocuments

"Clearing the Documents Menu Automatically
Added 6/2/96

The Documents Menu displays the last file and programs you used. You can clear item manually but only through editing
the Registry can you turn this off automatically. This can be useful on computers that are used by multiple people.
The same settings can be also used in NT 4.0

Set the properties on the Recycle Bin to delete files immediately.
Start Regedit
Go to HKey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders
Right click on the right panel
Select New / String Value
Rename it to Recent - Only if it is not already there
Give it the value of C:\RECYCLED
Set your Recycle bin to Automatically delete files
Log off and back on again.
Your Documents Menu should now be blank. This will be for all subsequent users who logon as well."

Bryan

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/tipsall.htm is the home page for All the Tips.

Bryan

You will have to do that from within the registry.

Ensure you understand how to backup and restore the registry if you are not familiar with it.

Click on Start and Run.
Type regedit and click OK.
Browse to the following location in the registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer

In the right hand pane right click on an empty spot and select New and DWORD Value.

Name it NoRecentDocsHistory

Double click on it and you should see a place to enter a Value data.

Change that to a 1 to Disable and 0 if you wish to Enable.

Mesich

Bryan,

Couple of different ways to accomplish that it appears. I was not aware of the way you described.
Fingers are still a little slow this morning also, maybe its just the brain. :)

Mesich

Is this not a function achievable with TweakUI?

I've not used TweakUI in a long time but suspect you can use it to utterly remove the "Documents" item from the Start Menu.

TweakUI is short for "Tweak User Interface" and is specifically designed to allow UI changes without mucking around in regedit. Available from MS, but read this first ....

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui

Hi Johnathon,

TweakUI has a setting that will allow you to clear the recent documents at login. It will still create the list of documents and after shutting down and restarting the list will be cleared.

Editing the registry as above will not create the recent documents list at all.

Mesich

Another solution is to eliminate the "documents" folder in the start menu with TweakUI under the IE tab.