Restoring ‘Documents’ (Office 2000 SR-1 Premium)

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Some time ago I came across a “tip” on removing the Documents shortcut from Start, the shortcut that shows the file names of the last several documents. At that time I was concerned about a privacy issue and applied the tip. Now I’d like to restore that shortcut and I haven’t been able to locate where I got the tip. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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I came across this tip to remove Documents – presumably it will work in reverse either by removing the key, or changing the value to 0.
I recommend you backup your registry first!

1. Start the Registry Editor
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies Explorer
3. Right-click an open area in the right pane and select New > DWORD Value
4. Name it NoRecentDocsMenu
5. Double-click this entry and add the value 1
6. Exit Regedit and restart Windows

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Thanks, Leif. I deleted the key and got the Documents shortcut back.

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Perhaps this will work for you (does for me w/Word 97)

If you have Tweak, go to Paranoia Tab and uncheck Clear Document history at logon.
Good luck

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