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[J_B]

Hi everyone, newbie here, and wondered if anyone has the time or indeed the inclination to help with something so very simple but i cant crack it !!!! I just want tweat the setting so CC does not clean/remove MY RECENT DOCUMENTS from EXPLORER. Have have unchecked it from beneath the WINDOWS TAB, but still CC removes them? Any help would be greaty appreciated
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J_B

[hazelnut]

Hello J_B, welcome to the forum

Could you say which operating system you use, and which version of ccleaner.

Is this a new thing that has just started happening or are you a new user of ccleaner?

[Groonx]

For anyone trying to help, apparently this HAS been done, but does not seem to work:

In CCleaner, in the left margin, you see WINDOWS and APPLICATIONS.
Left-click on WINDOWS.
> WINDOWS EXPLORER > Recent Documents
Uncheck the box.

I'm scratching my head over this one. I wonder if you have TuneUp Utilities doing the same thing. There are various apps that do it. Why not disable CCleaner temporarily, and see if the problem still exists?

[Andavari]

Windows can also have a registry key changed to turn off the creation of My Recent Documents links in that special Start menu folder.

xp-AntiSpy can either enable or disable it via a registry setting. It's located here in xp-AntiSpy:
Miscellaneous Settings -> Clean history of recently used documents
which in your case you'd want it to be unticked.