Enable maximum number of shortcuts in recent documents option of start menu.

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This setting enables you the facility of making maximum number of shortcuts (default value is 15) on Recent Documents in Start menu.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
This setting enables you the facility of making maximum number of shortcuts (default value is 15) on recent documents in start menu. Windows saves the recently used documents here by practice. You can change this number with your required input value. For this, you have to make changes in the registry. Go to "start->run" and enter "regedit" and click "ok". Search the key. Enter reg_dword value for "maxrecentdocs" in right panel. Enter the value with the number of shortcuts required. Delete this entry for default value. After restart or logoff, changes take effect. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Second, go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]</b>, right-click in the open area to create a new DWORD value "MaxRecentDocs".
Third, right-click on the "MaxRecentDocs" DWORD value and click on "Modify".
Finally, enter the desired decimal value in the 'Value Data' field and click on 'OK'.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: MaxRecentDocs
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Action Type: Add an Entry


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