How to clear My Documents history automatically on Log off
by Siddartha on May 22, 2009
This tip will help you to clear your recently opened documents automatically on windows log off. Your family members and co-workers can find out your documents browsing activities with clicking on documents list menu. However this tip is very useful for you, if you are sharing your computer with others or you do not want that other persons know about your last visited documents history. This trick will work in nearly all of the windows versions like Windows 2000, XP and 2003.
Follow the given steps for configuration to clear recently opened documents automatically:
To edit the computer registry, first you should log onto your computer with administrative rights.
Here is the procedure:
Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.
Navigate to HKEY_Current_User SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion PoliciesExplorer 
Now in right side panel, click
right to create a new
DWORD value with the name
ClearRecentDocsOnExit and then set its value to
1.

But next time, if you want to disable this functionality then simply change the value of data box to
0 or delete the
ClearRecentDocsOnExit DWORD item.
Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

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