How To Clear My Recent Documents List In Windows Xp

Wesley N. Chin (秦寧）

Regarding your question about My Recent Documents, do the following:

1. Click Start

2. Click Control Panel

3. Click "Taskbar and Start Menu"

4. Click Start Menu tab

5. Click "Customize"

6. Click "Advanced" tab

7. Check the last box "List my most recently opened documents"

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JeanKearsley

This response answered the MIDDLE part of my question -- once I had changed my Control Panel view from "Category" back to "Classic", so I could locate the "Taskbar & Start Menu" icon in the first place!

As to the last part of my question, re a global "clear the list" button, I actually found one myself -- for Outlook only! -- hiding under the Tools button at the bottom of the Insert File dialog box, when "My Recent Documents" was chosen at the right side of the box.

And while there is a "Clear List" button on the same Advanced screen which Jorge directed me to above -- the one with the checkbox for "List my most recently opened documents" -- I still have to go through all that tunneling to get to it, rather than having it as a right-click menu functionality while looking at my START menu "My Recent Documents" list, once I set one up. Is that simple option simply one which doesn't exist prior to MS Vista??

Last point: Anybody know why the $&*%# MS Outlook accumulates a list of recently viewed documents totally independently of Windows as a whole?

Jean

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I thought 10 was supposed to take care of the most miserable 8 and 8.1. Forget it!!!

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