Delete the contents of the Documents menu

Windows 2000 and XP have a small option that saves traces of all the documents that you use daily on your computer, be it either text files, word documents, excel files, etc.

The files are stored in the Documents list (or My Recent Documents) on the Start menu.

To remove traces of these annoying files, click “Start”, “Run” and type “regedit”. Click “OK” and you will have the Windows Registry open.

Go to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add a new DWORD value called NoRecentDocsHistory.

Give this a value of 1 in hexadecimal.

Close the registry editor and reboot your computer for the changes to take effect.

You can also download these reg files which will create all of the changes for you!

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