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CLEANING UP YOUR RECENT DOCUMENTS LIST
Some people are paranoid about having a list of all the
documents they have been recently working on in the
"Documents" folder accessible from the Start
button. If you want to completely clear out this list, it
is easy to do so as follows: first right-click the
Taskbar. Second, click on "Properties". Third,
click "Start Menu Programs", and finally, click
on "Clear". The list of documents that are
maintained as shortcuts in this folder come from programs
written specifically for Windows that you have recently
used, or from documents you've accessed in Explorer or My
Computer.
If you don't necessarily want to completely empty this
list, but perhaps only delete one item or a few of them,
then this is easy to do also. The first thing you should
do is ensure that the "Show all files" option
is checked in the Options screen accessed by clicking the
View menu in Explorer. (It's called Folder Options in
Win98/ME and reached from the Tools menu.) The reason
this has to be done is that otherwise you won't be able
to see the "Windows\Recent" folder in Explorer,
for "Recent" is by default a hidden folder. Now
go into Explorer, right-drag the icon for the
"Windows\Recent" folder to the desktop and
choose "Create Shortcut(s) here" when you
release the Mouse button. This creates a shortcut to the
Recent Documents folder, which will open up in folder
view to show you its contents. Now you can delete any
ones you wish by right-clicking and choosing
"Delete" from the context menu.
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