I use CCleaner too (it's fantastic!) and it can definitely be responsible for this. You could give it a try - get a couple of recent documents remembered and then run CCleaner to see if it clears them out. Any other cleaning software would also be a potential culprit.




To get the recent documents folder location you can

• click on the Orb > Open
• choose My Recent Documents on the left
• then at the top there's a drop down box which should say "Recent". If you click on that it should expand and it will show you the full path.

On my PC it's under C:\Documents and Settings\Colin\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent

Colin,

I don't see the Recent Documents folder just Places. Wonder if it has to do with the version of Office or the OS?



What do you think?

I'm gonna keep my eye on CCleaner when I use it.

Thanks.

Yeah, the filepath I gave earlier is for Win XP. I don't know where it is in Vista.

However, I just tested on my other PC (using XL 2010 on Windows 7) and CCleaner did wipe the recent workbooks section. Here are the screenshots to prove it...

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So, after a bit of playing around I think I've found the setting to prevent CCleaner from cleaning out your recent workbooks. Open up CCleaner, go to the Application tab and then untick the Office 2003-10 checkboxes. Note that unticking the Recent Documents checkbox on the Windows tab will not stop CCleaner from cleaning out the recent workbooks.

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Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing!

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I have removed this 'hidden' setting.

Appreciate your finding it.

I hope I can return the favor or at least pay it forward.

As an aside ...

Your thumbnails were created how?

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I use http://imageshack.us/ when forum doesn't offer something.