Recent Documents Folder

[Interceptor]

On some of the Win 95 hack sites, there is a hack to redirect the
Recent Documents list to the Recycle Bin, which keeps them from
showing up there.

Have you tried putting a shortcut in \windows\recent to see if it
shows up in the list?

On Fri, 02 Jul 1999 00:22:51 GMT, david...@my-deja.com wrote:

>A user at my site is complaining that Word Documents and Excel
>Spreadsheets that he accesses regularly do not appear in his list of
>recent documents. To bad so sad, right? If it were happening to me I
>wouldn't care, but since this problem has been escalated to me from the
>help desk, I have to fix it. Any ideas why this might be happening?
>It seems to be rather inconsistent. Some files show up in the recent
>documents, but not others. I tried deleting all of the shortcuts in
>the recent documents folder, but that didn't fix it. Any suggestions
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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[glee]

I believe that if you double-click the file to open it, or right-click it
and choose the Open option, it will appear in the list. If you open the app
( Word, Excel, etc) and click File, Open, and choose the file from there, or
from the apps own MRU list under File menu option, it may NOT show up in the
Docs list. Also, Win 3.x apps won't show their docs opened, in the list.
HTH
glee

david...@my-deja.com wrote in message <7lh0oi$t01$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...

[david...@my-deja.com]

[Babu K J]

Hi David,

Try deleting the "Recent" folder and creating it again.

Regards,
Babu.

<david...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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[M. Spyridakis]

In addition to all the advice above...

First, if using IE4/5 check the TweakUI control panel settings...
Both the Paranoia tab and the IE4 tab have settings that affect
retention of document history.

Also I believe if there is no "Friendly name" in the file type
definition
of the registry, then you get no entry in the Recent doc list.
Unfortunately you also cannot see the file type under View | Folder
Options | <file type Tab> adn so you need to use regedit to put a name
in the default key. Repost if you need help with that.

Just remember, the customer is always right...
Max
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david...@my-deja.com wrote in message

[M. Spyridakis]

Earl W. Phillips, Jr. wrote in message
>on the subject of the document folder, is it possible to kill this
>thing? To me it's just irritating, and would rather not have it, or
at
>least never have anything in it. . .is that do-able?

***
Earl,

Someone else may know an old trick but I don't think you can do much
with the original Win95 install --

IE4 (or IE5) brings the ability to remove this list from the start
menu all together.
You may need the 'Desktop Update' component on a Win95 machine also ??

The latest TweakUI (works fine for most Win95/IE4-IE5 users) has an
IE4 tab with a couple 'recent documents' options as checkboxes... You
can get an 'official' copy of TweakUI98 (116 Kb on shareware/freeware
page) from
http://winweb.winmag.com/win98/software.htm

Hope this helps,