Remove My Recent Documents item from the Start menu.

This setting enables you to hide the option "My Recent Documents" from the Start menu.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Description:
Windows saves a shortcut to each and every document that is opened recently and s displayed it in my recent documents item in start menu, so that it should be available to the user whenever he wants to access it again. Normally, the maximum number of files stored is 15 in the list. This setting enables you to remove the item from the start menu. This can be done through some settings in the windows registry. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value norecentdocsmenu, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can remove the item from the start menu. However, if you want to show the option again, change the value to 0 or delete the value norecentdocsmenu. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.