WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL

EMPTY THE START MENU'S DOCUMENTS FOLDER AT SHUTDOWN

Windows 2000's Start menu includes a Documents folder that displays recent files. Listing these documents on the Start menu makes it easy to access recently and frequently used files. In some situations, however, you might not want Windows to display this document list for security or privacy reasons.

If you just want to remove a few documents from the list, you can right-click each document in the Documents menu, and choose Delete. Windows deletes the shortcut to the document, but it doesn't delete the document itself.

In addition, a couple of group policy settings exist that you can use to control how Windows handles document history. To set these policies at the local computer, go to Start | Run, enter GPEDIT.MSC in the Open text box of the Run dialog box, and click OK.

If you want to see the document history within the current session but don't want the history saved between sessions, go to User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Start Menu And Taskbar, and enable the Clear History Of Recently Opened Documents On Exit group policy. To prevent Windows from adding the documents to the Start menu at all, enable the Do Not Keep History Of Recently Opened Documents policy.