Comments on: How to clear or delete my recent documents in Windows

By: Walter Bartner

Walter Bartner — Wed, 19 May 2010 01:48:14 +0000

How can I prevent My Recent Documents from reappearing in Word / OPEN. At one time Word would only list my past letter writing activities under OPEN. Now I see all My Recent Documents appear in Word along with my letters. What changed?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:58:49 +0000

Your directions were so simple to follow thank you.

By: chok

chok — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:48:26 +0000

Thanks a lot! my recent documents are gone. nice job for this site!

By: Delete or Clear Jumplist Recent Items in Windows 7

Delete or Clear Jumplist Recent Items in Windows 7 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:07:59 +0000

[...] in the days, I wrote an article on how to clear the recent documents list in Windows XP. If you ever went to My Recent Documents in the Start Menu, you used to get a list of all the files [...]

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:29:12 +0000

Thank you so much for making this easy to understand. Worked first go! Recent documents are now all gone!

By: sunil

sunil — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:47:05 +0000

The suggestion was really helpful! I needed to clear my recent documents! Thanks a lot.

By: Raja

Raja — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:42:44 +0000

Thanks for providing useful suggestions .

By: Malu

Malu — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:05:08 +0000

I followe instructions on how to clear “my recent documents’ but the documents are still there. I need to get rid of them. Please help me!

By: Mister Fidwick

Mister Fidwick — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:28:17 +0000

Can anyone help me – there is another “my recent documents”, if you open microsoft word, click open and on the side panel there is “my documents, my computer, my recent documents”- it still shows recent documents even after I have followed the above steps. How can I clear it, I dont want my documents beng accessed!

By: Dave Vandermus

Dave Vandermus — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:41:33 +0000

The problem with the built-in option where you uncheck the check box is that this does not work with the classic start menu. I’ve even tried changing the start menu format and then unchecking the option, but as soon as I go back to the classic start menu, it starts tracking recent documents again.

By: FK Woo

FK Woo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:56:30 +0000

Hi,
Can someone tell me how to automatically clear the “my recent documents” after each Windows session.
I find manually clearing it at end of each session too tedious and i am a forgetful guy.:(
I am not a technie , so a simple step by step guide or screen shots would be greatly appreciated.

THANK YOU!!

21 Nov

By: st3po2000

st3po2000 — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:15:15 +0000

You must modify the Windows XP Registry to stop XP from keeping track of your recent documents. The start menu options above dont stop the shortcuts from being stored under your profile folder.

Registry Key is
HCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add DWORD value named NoRecentDocsHistory with Data Value of 1 to above, save, and reboot.

MS Tweak UI has a Recent Documents function, as well. Available from Microsoft.

By: chinapapa

chinapapa — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:46:15 +0000

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By: Dinesh

Dinesh — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:38:26 +0000

Its easy way to clear documents. Excellent

By: akishore

akishore — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:15:22 +0000

Vaibhav, I agree! If you have CCleaner, it clears out your recent documents and browser history also. Thanks.