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To completely prevent Office 2000 programs from creating recent document links, use the Microsoft NUL device as the target. Requires editing the registry. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUL: for a simple explanation of the nul device)
Office creates the recent doc links in the "C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent" directory. To prevent this behavior change the destination directory to NUL in the registry. Then the "Recent" folder and all its recent document links can be deleted and will not be recreated. Code:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General ----- OR ------- save the following 3 lines to a file (copy and paste into a text file), right click on the saved file, and select "merge" to install: Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General] "RecentFiles"="NUL"
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Hi berserker,
Unecessarily editing the Registry isn't a wise thing to do and I'm not sure what the value of this is, given that you can set the recent-document count to 0 for any version of any Office program. And yes, you'd need to change the path reference for other Office versions.
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Setting the recent-document count to 0 (at least for Office 2000) just hides the recent files list from the user in the Office program interface. The office programs still create the files on disk when a document is opened. I don't want the files being created at all - they are annoying and a security/privacy risk (if you're wondering, I don't use the "cloud" either.) (I shouldn't have to run cleanup programs, scripts, or batches to correct what shouldn't be an issue in the first place. Also I use Everything - a real time disk indexer/searcher to find most of my documents prior to editing, and I see the .lnk recent document shortcut files appearing every time I open a document with an office program - it messes with my workflow as it bumps and confuses the searchlist in realtime. The simple regedit fixes all the above. |
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