1) Access your group policy editor: Open Start, and type gpedit.msc in the Search bar.
2) Navigate to User Configuration / Administrative Templates / Start Menu and Taskbar
3) Edit the settings for “Clear history of recently opened documents on exit.� Right click this setting and choose properties.
4) Enable this feature.
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Auto Clear Recent Items list in Vista
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The Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is only in the Windows Vista Small Business Edition, Professional Edition, Enterprise Edition and Ultimate edition.
You can just set the registry key manually though.
Looking in the StartMenu.admx copy I have I found the registry key this policy sets.
Registry key - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value - ClearRecentDocsOnExit
The data of the value is probably a DWORD value of 1.
Edit: Just looked and found http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/546/
It appears the key I found is correct.
Edit 2: I just made a registry file to apply this tweak.
It's at http://www.techoddity.com/temp.....OnExit.reg
Just download it, run it, click Continue, click Yes, click ok and the tweak should be applied.
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