Start menu > List my most recently opened documents.

[boston33]

Hello,

One of our employees is using XP Pro. They want to see a list of the most recently opened documents in the start menu. We went to Start menu prop > customize button > advanced tab > List my most recently opened documents. It is checked.

The employee stated this always worked in the past.(Recently, we disabled a group policy that did my document redirection to our server. He wanted his My document folder local, not on the server. He stated it stopped working when we stopped the g.policy redirection.).

Is there a g.policy setting that I could check? Is there anything else that could stop the " List my most recently opened documents " from working? Thanks.

 

[roland63]

Click once on start button, on this menu, select blank area and right-click once, select "properties".

Select "Start Menu" tab, start menu option checked in, click on "customize", Advanced tab, check in option at bottom "list my most recently opened documents"..

Hope that works...

 

[captaincrunch00]

This isnt very helpful, but did you make sure to explain to the user that if his hard drive crashes he loses all of his my documents and there is absolutely nothing you can do to recover them?

The guy above me listed exactly what you had already done.

Does the start menu have to be in "classic" mode for it to list the most recent documents? I've never played with it with the XP style menu.

 

[paulha]

Has he installed tweak ui ?

 

[gpalmer711]

Take a look at the following in gpedit.msc

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu & Taskbar > Remove Documents from Start Menu

That is the policy that controls whether Recent Documents is shown on the start menu.

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[boston33]

Thanks very much for the responses.


(I am offsite, but I will at the group policy tonight with gpedit. This user has their own AD OU and their own specific group policy. I think gpalmer711 found the solution. I will reply back tomorrow.).

 

[boston33]

The local group policy and the domain group policy are set to: Not Configured.

I tested the Start Menu > Documents History on this l.top.

It keeps a history of zip files that were opened. It seems isolated to Microsoft Office 2003 files. (It keeps a history of everything, except Office 2003 files).

If anybody has seen this problem, please contact me. Thanks.

 

[linney]

These are Office related.

Clear the history of recently used files

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/word/HP011684581033.aspx?pid=CH060831621033

Customize the list of recently used files

http://office.microsoft.com/client/...&rt=2&ns=WINWORD&lcid=3081&pid=CH100793971033

You could also look to the MS Office forum for expert help.

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=68