clearing "documents"

In Win 98, how do you clear the contents of the "Documents" menu that is
found when Start is clicked?
Thanks tcoop

Rightclick the Taskbar.
Select Properties, then the Start Menu Programs tab
Press Clear in the Documents menu section

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In Win 98, how do you clear the contents of the "Documents" menu that is
found when Start is clicked?
Thanks tcoop

Tom C wrote:
In Win 98, how do you clear the contents of the "Documents" menu that is
found when Start is clicked?

Start Settings Taskbar & Start Menu Start Menu Programs Clear.

Note, though, that this will clear other things as well.

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There is a way to prevent that menu from building in the first place...
use "NoRecentDocsHistory"...

"START button, Run, RegEdit", & navigate to...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Exp
lorer

That is,
(a) Click plus signs, beginning at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & ending with
"Policies".
(b) Click "Explorer" in the left pane, & look in the right pane.
(c) R-Clk an empty area in the R-Pane, & Select "New, Binary Value".
(d) Copy/paste "NoRecentDocsHistory" (no quotes) as it's Value Name.
(e) Enter "01 00 00 00" (no quotes) one at a time as it's Value Data..
(f) Exit, & it may be necessary to reboot.

WARNING: Do not get carried away in the Registry. It is very important
to the proper functioning of Windows. Muss it badly, & you must boot to
DOS & "Scanreg /Restore". Then, choose the date of the last successful
boot from the five offered.

The rest of this is just informational...

......Start of Other things that may be done there.......
Right-click the right pane and select New, Binary Value, & name it:

NoClose To disable Shut Down.
NoFavoritesMenu To remove Favorites.
NoFileMenu To remove the File Menu in Explorer.
NoFind To remove Find.
NoLogOff To remove Log Off.
NoRecentDocsHistory To disable the Documents compilation process.
NoRecentDocsMenu To remove Documents.
NoRun To remove Run.
NoSaveSettings To prevent some few settings getting saved to the
Registry.
NoSetFolders To disable Control Panel and Printer folders.
NoTrayContextMenu To disable Taskbar context menu.
NoViewContextMenu To disable (all?) context menus.

Double-click the new entry, select modify, and add this value: 01 00 00
00.
To reverse the action, change the value to: 00 00 00 00
.......End of Other things that may be done there.......

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130234
Save Settings On Exit Option Enabled by Default
....Quote.............
....snip...
Setting the NoSaveSettings field to 1 prevents your settings from being
saved. When you set this value, the following items are not saved when
you exit Windows:

Changed icon positions on the desktop.
Windows that are open when you exit.
The size and position of the taskbar.
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