http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=925 Helping PC users make sense of Microsoft software since 1991 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=925&cpage=1#comment-2708 Ed Bott Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:41:05 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=925#comment-2708 Jason, that only works if you're using XP Pro. With XP Home Edition, you would have to use CACLS to accomplish the same thing. Jason, that only works if you’re using XP Pro. With XP Home Edition, you would have to use CACLS to accomplish the same thing.

]]> http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=925&cpage=1#comment-2707 Jason Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:32:56 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=925#comment-2707 You need to go to the %userprofile%\Recent folder and turn off write permissions. Richt click -> Properties -> Security Tab -> remove check box from the 'Write' box. This will prevent documents from being tracked in this folder. You need to go to the %userprofile%\Recent folder and turn off write permissions. Richt click -> Properties -> Security Tab -> remove check box from the ‘Write’ box.
This will prevent documents from being tracked in this folder.

]]> http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=925&cpage=1#comment-2307 Martey Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=925#comment-2307 I do not know whether anyone else has this problem, but on my computers, clearing the "List my most recently opened documents" checkbox does not prevent new shortcuts from appearing in the %userprofile%\Recent folder. I had to use NTFS permissions to remove my account's write access to the folder in order for it to stop. I do not know whether anyone else has this problem, but on my computers, clearing the “List my most recently opened documents” checkbox does not prevent new shortcuts from appearing in the %userprofile%\Recent folder. I had to use NTFS permissions to remove my account’s write access to the folder in order for it to stop.

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