Friday, October 8, 2010

How to clean My Recent Documents Automatically on Log off?

Here is an exciting tip to remove My documents automatically when we log off computer, as we know it is a Virtual sub folder of the user's My Documents folder holds the details of lastly used items in computer.This portion of documents exposes your recent activity to all other users who access to your computer,which may have some private and personal data . we can delte the logs of Recent activity by manually deleting everytime logging off.But this trick lets you to customise automarically clearing of recent documents on log off .For this you need to do some Registry settings>
just follow this steps:
*Click Start --> Run --> Type in regedit
*Navigate to the following key.
HKEY_Current_User > Software > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Policies
*Right click on the Right Pane --> New -->Dword Value & name it as ClearRecentDocsOnExit .
*Double Clcik on it & se the value to 1

This will clear the My Recent Documents Folder automatically on logoff.

To stop this activity just delete the Dword value or set the value to 0.

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