Re: help for a friend?

From: Karl (karlb65_at_nospamcomcast.net)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:09:37 -0500

I haven't heard back from my friend about finding it on his XP Pro. I am
using classic start menu and when I click customize i see a button that says
clear but not in list below to put check in checkbox.

"Mark L. Ferguson" <marfer_mvpREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I must not be describing the location well enough. Perhaps someone else
can help you find it. Both home and pro have the setting
> there.
>
> --
>
> Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.txt
> marfers notes for windows xp
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
> .
> "Karl Too" <karlb65@nospamcomcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Mark,
> >
> > Thanks for the help. I have XP Home and when I go through the steps
> > prescribed and click Advanced, I get the explorer windows. In the left
pane,
> > there is a folder called My Recent Documents. Any way to apply your fix
to
> > XP Home?
> >
> > Just so I don't cause confusion the question was for XP Pro and I am
> > assuming that there is a checkbox for recent documents in Pro.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Karl
> > "Mark L. Ferguson" <marfer_mvpREMOVE@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:OlgN5sHAFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> It strikes me as a desire for security for the files, so I will tell
you
> > about a way to take the files out of the History
> >> "Immediately" Set History to keep no days of history, then set the date
to
> > tomorrow, and restart, and change the date back.
> >>
> >> There is a 'recent document' item at start menu/Properties/start menu
tab,
> > Customize button, advanced tab, see checkbox for recent
> >> documents at the bottom
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Mark L. Ferguson (NOT an MS-MVP)
> >> FAQ for MS AntiSpy
http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.txt
> >> marfers notes for windows xp
> > http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
> >> .
> >> "Karl" <karlb65@nospamcomcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:ejo3mi9$EHA.2728@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >> > My friend is having this particular problem? with his XP Pro.
Apparently
> >> > what is
> >> > happening is that when he opens Excel documents during the day to
edit
> > them
> >> > (or Word docs, etc) it puts them under the My Computer folder (or
> > somewhere
> >> > in there) in the History
> >> > Folder. He is on a small network and uses XP Pro (not sure if the
> > network
> >> > setup has anything to do with it). If anyone knows any way to have
> > History
> >> > not save a list of opened documents in the History Folder, I will
pass
> > it
> >> > along.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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