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Recent documents list
Windows stores a list of documents and files you have recently opened and worked with. Anyone who has access to your computer can see this list and link to any of the items that you've opened. You can clear recent documents (delete recent documents list) manually or using special software.
Why you should clean Recent documents list
The record of every document that you open on your computer can be easily accessed from the Start menu (click on Start, then Documents). To protect privacy, you should clean Recent Documents list from time to time.
Clear All History - easy way to clean recent documents
Using Clear All History you can clean recent documents list manually using 'Clear Recent Documents' option or automatically using program scheduler.
Using "Disable Recent documents" option you can disable Recent documents list from access without deleting recently used documents.
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How to clean Recent Documents list
Clean Recent documents on Windows XP/2000
To clean Recent Documents history (most recently used documents list) for Windows XP manually:
• Right-click the Start button and choose "Properties".
• Then click "Customize".
• Click the "Advanced" tab
• To clear 'My Recent Documents folder' click "Clear List" and then click "OK".
Note: This action does not delete documents from the computer.
To clean recent documents list on Windows 2000
To clear Recent Documents list (for Windows 2000):
• Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Taskbar & Start Menu.
• Click the Advanced tab.
• In Customize Start menu, click Clear.
Clear Recent documents and Recent items on Windows Vista
Recent Items, which is located on the right side of the Start menu, displays a list of the files that you've used recently. You can open a file from this list by clicking it. Recent Items appears on the Start menu by default, but you can remove it, which will stop Windows from compiling a list of your recently opened files. If you want to begin compiling a list of your recently opened documents and files again, you can add Recent Items back to the Start menu.
To clean recent documents list on Windows Vista (Standard Start Menu)
To clean 'Recent Items' (recent documents and files history) from Start menu
• Click 'Start' button.
• Right-click 'Recent items'.
• Click 'Clear Recent Items List'.
Note: Clearing the Recent Items list does not delete the items from your computer.
To clean recent documents list on Windows Vista Classic Start Menu
• Click 'Start' button.
• Select 'Settings'.
• Select 'Taskbar and Start Menu'.
• Open 'Start menu' tab.
• Click 'Customize'.
• To clear recently opened documents and files history click 'Clear' button.
• Click 'OK'.
Clear All History provides an easy way to clean recent documents
Using Clear All History you can clean recent documents list manually using 'Clear Recent Documents' option or automatically using program scheduler.
Using "Disable Recent documents" option you can disable Recent documents list from access without deleting recently used documents.
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• How to clean Recent Documents folder for Windows XP manually
To clean Recent Documents history (most recently used documents list) for Windows XP manually:
• Right-click the Start button and choose "Properties".
• Then click "Customize".
• Click the "Advanced" tab
• To clean 'My Recent Documents folder' click "Clear List" and then click "OK".
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