I found a way to exclude programs from the recently used programs list & I can't find it again, anyone know where it is?

Originally posted by marker0077:

"I found a way to exclude programs from the recently used programs list & I can't find it again, anyone know where it is?"

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Try this:

Right-Click on the taskbar first... get to the "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" modal tabbed window.

Click on the "Customize" button.

Then, use the "General" tab & in the "Programs" group box, you will see 'Number of programs on Start menu' & defaults iirc, to 6.

Make it 0...



* That OUGHT to do it!

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P.S.=> That knocks it silly, NO programs displayed! IF there is a way to SELECTIVELY allow/disallow (the latter most likely) ones to allow to appear, I would like to know this trick as well! A good spot for the 'latest-greatest' tricks/tweaks for NT/2000/XP/2003 is this one, it's LOADED:

http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm

(BET THEY HAVE IT, IF A "SELECTIVE PRUNING" METHOD EXISTS!)

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It's in PowerToys for XP. I knew I saw it somewhere. Thanks anyways.

Another way that i have used in the past, just Deny the "everyone" group full control the "recent" folder. Then nothing can read or write to it.

If XP home, boot to safe mode to get the full NTFS permissions.

I only wanted to exclude certain items, such as the shortcuts I keep on the quick launch bar, so doing it the "denying access" way wouldn't really work for me in this case. Thanks anyways though.

dude you must be doing something wrong

when you use quick launch item or desktop link it does not add them to the start menu

By default, yes it does, at least with XP anyways. You can modify it to not show the recently used programs but it's there by default.

Oh ya & BTW, we're talking about the "Start" menu - not quick launch or anything else.