Friday, July 3, 2009
The number of documents or files that you recently accessed can seriously affect the performance of your system while booting up if you are not resuming from a previous session ie hibernation mode. You can see these recently accessed documents by taking a look at the documents item on the start menu and hence it spoils your privacy. Many of us know how to clear these files. One method is to right click the task bar to open the properties and select the start menu tab and click the customize button the then hit the clear button to clear the recent documents. Another method is to type 'recent' on the run prompt and select all files displayed and clear it. But what happens when we forget to do it in a hurry? You can make this action automatic and it will perform on each user log off or shudown.
Follow the steps to make it.
On the run prompt type regedit and bring up the registry editor.
Now navigate to this path
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Make a new DWORD in there with the name ClearRecentDocsOnExit and give the value '1'.
Done!
Warning...!!! If you are not very familiar with editing registry, please backup your registry before you proceed. Perform this tweak at your own risk. Astalavista!
