"Recent docs" folder always empty

Thanks Mark, I did not know it was an option you could disable. However, I
confirmed that the option was already selected and I followed your suggestion
to clear it and select it again with restarts between. It did not help. The
recent executed programs area was cleared when I disabled that feature and
started building list again when I re-enabled it but the "Recent Items" list
never changed, it is still "empty" even though I opened a few files.



"Mark Bourne" wrote:

> compTMan wrote:

> > I upgraded from Windows XP to Vista Home Premium. In XP I had five user
> > accounts setup; admin & four standard users. After the upgrade to Vista all
> > accounts ported well except for one thing. Any documents I open by double
> > clicking on the file are reflected in the "Recent Items" area as long as I'm
> > in the Admin. acct. However, in the other four user accts. the "Recent
> > Items" area is never updated and is always empty no matter how many files are
> > opened by double clicking. Anyone have an idea why this is and how to
> > resolve?

>
> Are those users set up to store that list? To check, right click the
> start button, or an empty area of the task bar, open the "Start Menu"
> tab, and make sure the "Store and display a list of recently opened
> files" is ticked. If not, click the box to put a tick in it and click OK.
>
> If it is already ticked, you could try unticking it and clicking OK,
> then going back and ticking it again. That has been known to solve a few
> problems! It might help (I'm not sure) to reboot before re-ticking the
> box just to be sure the unticked setting has taken effect.
>

compTMan;449018 Wrote:

> Thanks Mark, I did not know it was an option you could disable. However,
> I
> confirmed that the option was already selected and I followed your
> suggestion
> to clear it and select it again with restarts between. It did not help.
> The
> recent executed programs area was cleared when I disabled that feature
> and
> started building list again when I re-enabled it but the "Recent Items"
> list
> never changed, it is still "empty" even though I opened a few files.
>
>

Hi CompTMan,

You might try this tutorial. It is for Recent Programs, but it may
help witht the Recent Documents as well.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...emembered.html

Shawn


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Great info Brink. I assume this is the forum for the 64-bit version of Vista.

I followed the tutorial and found that I already have the number "3" in that
Registry item (as I would expect since my "Recent Programs" section was
already working). Now if I could only find the same reg. item for the
"Recent Items/documents."

BTW, I'm running the 32-bit version of Vista.

Ted



"brink" wrote:

>
> compTMan;449018 Wrote:

> > Thanks Mark, I did not know it was an option you could disable. However,
> > I
> > confirmed that the option was already selected and I followed your
> > suggestion
> > to clear it and select it again with restarts between. It did not help.
> > The
> > recent executed programs area was cleared when I disabled that feature
> > and
> > started building list again when I re-enabled it but the "Recent Items"
> > list
> > never changed, it is still "empty" even though I opened a few files.
> >
> >

>
> Hi CompTMan,
>
> You might try this tutorial. It is for Recent Programs, but it may
> help witht the Recent Documents as well.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...emembered.html
>
> Shawn
>
>
> --
> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> _http://www.Vistax64.com (\"http://www.Vistax64.com\")_
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

While browsing the suggested forum I found others that are having the same
problem. I have noticed that my Admin. user account "Recent Items" area does
update properly. Only my standard user accts. don't update the Recent Items
area. After reviewing the post in the other forum, I've found that by going
to the folder C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent my
Admin. user ID has a "Recent Items" file while my other user ID's don't have
this file. So that's the issue. The question is how do we correct it? I could
copy the file from Admin. and paste it in one of the user ID's to see if that
helps but I think there should also be some Registry changes required to get
it to be used properly.

"compTMan" wrote:

> Great info Brink. I assume this is the forum for the 64-bit version of Vista.
>
> I followed the tutorial and found that I already have the number "3" in that
> Registry item (as I would expect since my "Recent Programs" section was
> already working). Now if I could only find the same reg. item for the
> "Recent Items/documents."
>
> BTW, I'm running the 32-bit version of Vista.
>
> Ted
>
>
>
> "brink" wrote:
>

> >
> > compTMan;449018 Wrote:

> > > Thanks Mark, I did not know it was an option you could disable. However,
> > > I
> > > confirmed that the option was already selected and I followed your
> > > suggestion
> > > to clear it and select it again with restarts between. It did not help.
> > > The
> > > recent executed programs area was cleared when I disabled that feature
> > > and
> > > started building list again when I re-enabled it but the "Recent Items"
> > > list
> > > never changed, it is still "empty" even though I opened a few files.
> > >
> > >

> >
> > Hi CompTMan,
> >
> > You might try this tutorial. It is for Recent Programs, but it may
> > help witht the Recent Documents as well.
> >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...emembered.html
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> >
> > --
> > brink
> >
> > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> > _http://www.Vistax64.com (\"http://www.Vistax64.com\")_
> > *Please post feedback to help others.*
> >

compTMan wrote:

> Great info Brink. I assume this is the forum for the 64-bit version of Vista.

Much of it is also relevant to 32-bit Vista. That site also archives
these newsgroups, so you can find old posts which Microsoft has deleted
from these newsgroups by putting "site:www.vistax64.com words to search
for" (without the quotes) into Google.

>
> I followed the tutorial and found that I already have the number "3" in that
> Registry item (as I would expect since my "Recent Programs" section was
> already working). Now if I could only find the same reg. item for the
> "Recent Items/documents."

It looks like that article explains how to manually change what the
tick-boxes on the dialogue do for you. I can't be certain though.

>
> BTW, I'm running the 32-bit version of Vista.
>
> Ted
>
>
>
> "brink" wrote:
>

>> compTMan;449018 Wrote:

>>> Thanks Mark, I did not know it was an option you could disable. However,
>>> I
>>> confirmed that the option was already selected and I followed your
>>> suggestion
>>> to clear it and select it again with restarts between. It did not help.
>>> The
>>> recent executed programs area was cleared when I disabled that feature
>>> and
>>> started building list again when I re-enabled it but the "Recent Items"
>>> list
>>> never changed, it is still "empty" even though I opened a few files.
>>>
>>>

>> Hi CompTMan,
>>
>> You might try this tutorial. It is for Recent Programs, but it may
>> help witht the Recent Documents as well.
>>
>> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/89...emembered.html
>>
>> Shawn
>>
>>
>> --
>> brink
>>
>> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
>> _http://www.Vistax64.com (\"http://www.Vistax64.com\")_
>> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>>