Missing "My Recent Documents" options in Start Menu

Hello Everyone,

I'm running Windows Xp on my system. Recently i found "My Recent Documents" missing on my start menu. I don't know but it has disappear suddenly. Does any one knows how do i get back "My Recent Documents" in Start menu? Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

To enable “My recent Documents” on the start menu:

• Right-click ‘Start’ and select properties
• Choose ‘Start Menu’ tab.
• Click ‘Customize’ and then ‘Advanced’ tab.
• Under Recent documents, check the ‘List my most recently opened documents’ box and hit OK.
• If you now open ‘Start’ you will notice “My recent documents” list has appeared.

However, this recent documents list is quite short and would show only the last 15 files. If you want to view more than 15 files, you can visit the “Recent” folder on your C drive.

This folder is usually at the following location:

‘C:\Documents and Settings\ your log-on name\Recent’.

If you can’t see the folder in a windows explorer, choose Tools, Folder Options and then click the View tab and select Show Hidden Files and Folders and click OK.

Alternatively, if you type the following command in the run box and press Ok, it will directly take you to the recent folder even if it is set to the “Hidden” option:

%userprofile%\recent

Hope so it may help you out.:thumbup1:

So here’s a step by step guide to deleting your my recent documents list:

First, right-click on the Start Button and choose Properties:

You’ll now be in the Start Menu and Taskbar properties dialog box. You should already be on the Start Menu tab. Go ahead and click on the Customize button.
You should now be viewing the Customize Start Menu dialog box. Go ahead and click on the Advanced tab.At the bottom, you’ll see a section called Recent Documents. Click Clear List to clear the most recent list of documents. If you do not want Windows to record your recent documents at all, check the List my most recently opened documents box. That’s it!

To Display the My Recent Documents Folder on the Start menu:

• Right-click 'Start' and select 'Properties'. Or, right-click on the TaskBar and select 'Properties'.
• Shoose 'Start Menu' tab.
• Click 'Customize'.
• Click 'Advanced' tab.
• Under Recent documents, put check mark for 'List my most recently opened documents' and click OK.

Note: Next time you open 'Start', you'll see My Recent Documents list.