Hide the History system folder in the Places Bar.

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Places Bar is the bar which allows you to jump directly to History, My Documents etc in the lift side of Microsoft Office Open/Save dialog. This tweak is used to hide the History System folder in Places Bar of MS Office XP.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Description:
Places bar is the bar which allows you to jump directly to history, my documents etc in the lift side of microsoft office open/save dialog. This tweak is used to hide the history system folder in places bar of ms office xp. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value show, in the right panel, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify its value to 0 which can hide history folder. However, if you want show the folder back, change the value data to 1 or delete the added value. 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.

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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Recent\]</b> key, right-click on the blank area in the right pane and click on "New > DWORD Value" to create a new DWORD value with the name "Show".

Third, right-click on the 'Show' DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Finally, enter the value "0" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

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Registry Entries

Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Common\Open Find\Places\StandardPlaces\Recent\]
Location: Current User
Value Name: Show
Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
Enabled Value: 0
Disabled Value: 1
Action Type: Add an Entry

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