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How can I remove the Documents menu?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
2 Min Read
A. There is no way to remove the Documents menu from theStart button without Active Desktop installed and you have to empty it at the start of each session. WithWindows 98 you can remove the Documents menu.
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move toHKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer
From the Edit menu select New - DWORD value
Enter a name of NoFavoritesMenu and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 1. Click OK
Close the registry editor
Log off and on again and the Docuements menu is gone.
For NT you will have to perform the following:
The documents menu is actually the contents of%systemroot%ProfilesRecent, e.g.d:winntProfilessavilljRecent, and if you delete the contents of this folderthen nothing will be shown in the documents menu. The easiest way to do thiswould be to create a batch file and place it in you startup group
Start Notepad
Enter into the file
del /q %systemroot%Profiles%username%Recent*.*
actually type the %systemroot% and %username% unless you areperforming this on a Windows 95 machine in which case you should type in realvalues.Save the file as "deldoc.bat" (put the file name in quotes ornotepad will add .txt to the end) in a directory of you choice
Start Explorer
Move to the folder you saved deldoc.bat to and right click on it.
Drag the file to the %systemroot%Profiles%username%StartMenuProgramsStartup (e.g. d:winntProfilessavilljetc..) and release.Select "create shortcut here" from the displayed context menu
When you login from now on the batch file will be run and delete yourDocuments menu.
The same effect can be gained if you have TweakUI installed by clicking theParanoia tab and checking "Clear Document history at logon"
If you have Active Desktop in NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 using TweakUI 98, selectthe IE tab and unselect the 'Show Documents on Start Menu'. This can also be doneby directly editing the registry and setting HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerNoRecentDocsMenuto 1 (of type REG_BINARY).
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