I have an IBM Think Pad, TransNote with Windows 2000 professional.
My recently used documents in the start up menu, almost always empties of itself.

Alienintelligence provided the following comment which only last a few times.
Today, it is empty again. 

Press the start button, click on run. 
Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). 
 
Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ 
CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer. 
They are like folders, you'll have to browse for it. 
 
Double-click on the NoRecentDocsHistory value in the right 
pane - if it's not there, create a new binary value by that 
name. 
Change 01,00,00,00 to 00,00,00,00 
 
Repeat the last two steps on the NoRecentDocsMenu value. 
You'll have to restart Windows for the change to take effect. 
 
 
 
I can provide more detail if you need. 
 
-AI 
 
Also, I could not get Tweakui to work. Not all components loaded/or responded.

John, the chemist

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Request for Question Clarification by netcrazy-ga on 10 Jul 2002 11:56 PDT

Hi,

Are you trying to stop the "recently used documents in the start up
menu" to become empty ?

Thanks
netcrazy

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Clarification of Question by pendleton-ga on 10 Jul 2002 13:46 PDT

The problem that my laptop has is that it empties the recently used
documents from the documents in the start up menu upon shutting down
and restarting.

Sometimes it empites and sometimes not. 

I did the above and it seemed to be fixed. Now down days later, I had
removed the battery, did some restarts, etc. and it is empty.

I checked the above process by alienintelligence and the new info I
typed in
is still there.

So, what can I do to keep the 14 (I think that is the number it holds)
of most recently used documents in that start up menu "Documents"???

John

You might want to download and install Microsoft TweakUI 
(linked at http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/tweakui ).

This free and nifty utility will add much extra to your windows,
including the ability to "Clear Document history at logon". For you,
what you want is to disable that setting.

Hope that helped!

Ok... how bout this,
is the menu emptying associated
with a program you are running? 

Were you able to get the TweakUI
to install finally? Btw, it will
only toggle what I had you change
already in the registry.

A theory is, a program that was
installed is possibly wiping the 
MRU (most recently used) from the
registry. Which and why though.

Will consecutive starts and reboots
clear it? Have you tried that?
If that clears it out, without 
opening anything, then the culprit
is in the autorun, or the startup.
If multireboots don't clean it out,
start eliminating common run programs.

let me know...
-AI

Is your computer still acting up?

-AI

Alienintelligence-ga

By all appearances, the RUD (recently used documents) are staying in that 
file after shutdown and restart. 

Thanks for your helpful help. 

pendleton-ga