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winXP help - lost recent documents

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sariq Original post #1
Oct 18, 2006 at 11:29 AM
i was experimenting with settings in gpedit.msc yesterday. today i noticed that my recent documents list is always empty, with only My Documents and My pictures folder.
how can i restore it?
Vishal Gupta
Oct 18, 2006 at 2:46 PM
Open "regedit" and goto:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Now search & delete following values in right-side pane:

ClearRecentDocsOnExit
NoRecentDocsHistory
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sariq #3
Oct 18, 2006 at 6:37 PM
Thanx vishal, it is working now. after deleting those values it worked after restart.
Vishal Gupta
Oct 18, 2006 at 8:32 PM
Good to see, it worked for u ;)