Today we will consider a question that every Windows user has asked himself sooner or later. What are recent documents and how can I find them on my computer? The question is still relevant today. Some users have not yet upgraded their "Seven" to "Ten". Some still prefer stable and proven operating system"Windows 7". Let's take a closer look at everything.
What is Recent Documents for?
Surprisingly, not every user can answer this question. Some people have been working on computers for many years and are not even aware of the existence of such a folder. Actually, the Recent documents folder fully justifies its name. For example, if you are in a hurry to quickly save files, then they go directly to If when creating a document you do not pay attention to the place where your document will be stored in the future and the slightest failure occurs, then you can find the document in the Recent Documents folder . But the problem is that getting into this folder is not so easy. You won't be able to see it because it's hidden, and in order to get into it, you'll have to first change the settings to make the vault visible. Next, consider the instructions on how to make the folder visible and how to go into it and clean it.
How to get into the Recent folder?
The folder is located along the path C:(D)\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Recent documents. So, let's move on to the instructions that any PC user can follow. This method performed with a couple of mouse clicks. Everything is very easy and simple.
- We find the “Taskbar”, right-click on it, and a context menu opens for us.
- In the context menu, find the last item "Properties" and click on it. This will open a window with three tabs.
- Next in the window Next in open window find the "Settings" tab and click on it. We also check if you have checked the boxes in the "Privacy" section. If there are no checkboxes, then put them.
- You have opened the "Settings - Menu - Start" window. We go down and find the item "Recent Documents" and put a mark in front of it.
- Save to the "OK" button and exit. A link to the folder is now available in Start. In the same way, the link to the folder will be deleted on the "Ten".
Conclusion
In this article, we got acquainted with the Recent folder. Learned how to find Recent Documents. We recommend that you clean this folder from time to time. After cleaning, the files go to the "Trash", so if you accidentally deleted a document, then you have the opportunity to restore it. In the Start settings window, you can clean up recently used documents.
Information viewed by the user during world wide web, is saved and displayed in the browsing logs of the web browser you are using. Having such a browsing history makes it easier to find sites that the user has visited before. However, such data stored on a hard drive weighs a lot. To clear your computer's memory, you need to periodically delete your browsing history as well.
- Launch the Yandex browser.
- On the browser toolbar, find the button with the stripes on it. Click this icon.
- In the window that opens, select "History". Click on it.
- In the open submenu, select the "History" sub-item.
- Find the "Clear history" link. The link is on the right side of the screen (top). Click on it.
- Select the period for which you want to delete browsing history entries.
- Select the items to be deleted: list of visited sites; list of loaded documents; cached information; cookies and other information about websites; data for automatic authorization; information about the software; media licenses.
Note! Cache is a dedicated area of memory, an intermediate buffer with a high speed of information exchange.
- Click on the "Clear History" button.
The list of visited links has been removed.
Clear browsing history in Chrome
- Launch your browser.
- On the right (top) find the button with three dots. Click on it.
- In the window that appears, select the line "History". Click on it.
- Another window will open. Select "History" again.
- On the left side of the screen, find the phrase "Clear History". Click on it.
- Will open new inset. A window will appear in which you will need to select "Basic settings" or "Advanced".
- Click on the arrow in the Time Range. Specify the period for which you want to clear the log visit history.
- Below, select the information you want to delete: browsing history; website files and data; cached pictures and other files.
Note! Cookie (cookies) - a small piece of data that is sent by a web browser and stored in the memory of the user's device.
- Click on the "Delete" button. If you change your mind about clearing the log, click on Cancel.
Cleansing History at the Opera
Method 1
- Open the Opera web browser.
- In the upper right corner of the screen, find the icon that shows three stripes. Click on them.
- A window will open. Scroll it with the mouse wheel until the line "Go to browser settings" appears. Click on this phrase.
- A new tab will open. On the left, find the word "Security". Click on it.
- In the "Privacy" group, click on "Clear browsing history".
- Specify the time period for which you want to delete information.
- Select the information you want to get rid of: the list of visited sites; list of loaded documents; cookies and other site information; cached photos and files; passwords; information for automatic authorization; news usage data.
- Click on the "Clear browsing history" button. Otherwise, click the "Cancel" button.
Method 2
Information removed.
Clearing History in Safari on iPhone and iPad
- Find the "Settings" button. Click on it.
- Find the "Safari" section. Click on it.
- Select "Clear History". Click on it.
- Confirm your actions by clicking on the "Clear History" button. Otherwise, click on Cancel.
- The Clear History button is dimmed. The browsing history has been cleared.
Clear history in Chrome on iPhone and iPad
The visit log has been cleared.
Clearing History in Chrome on Android
Clearing history in Yandex.Browser on Android
- Launch your web browser.
- In the lower right corner, find the icon with three dots. Click on it.
- Select the "Settings" section. Click on it.
- Enter the "Privacy" item.
- In the "Privacy" group, tap on the "Clear Data" button. Select the information you want to get rid of. Confirm your actions by clicking on the "Delete" button.
The data has been removed.
Video - How to quickly clear iPhone / 2 GB memory in 5 minutes
Restoring the last session in any browser
The last session is open.
Restore history in any web browser
- Click on the "Start" button.
- Click on the "All Programs" button.
- Scroll the window with the mouse wheel until the line "Standard" appears.
- Click on the "Utilities" button.
- Click on System Restore.
- Check the box next to "Choose a different restore point". Click on the "Next" button.
- Select the period to which the computer should be restored. Click on "Next".
Note! System restore may affect other software as well. For example, at the end of the OS rollback, the drivers installed earlier may be missing.
Video - How to delete history in Yandex Browser
Somehow I ran into this problem. I don’t know how, but the Recent Places folder suddenly appeared on the desktop. The most interesting thing is that it was impossible to remove it by any in a standard way! When it was selected and the Del button was pressed, absolutely nothing happened. When called on a folder context menu(by right-click) it turned out that there is no such option "Delete" at all, as it usually happens! And when you try to drag this folder to the trash, only the shortcut to "Recent Places" appears in the trash, and the ill-fated folder remains in place. The same thing happened when trying to drag the folder to any other location.
If the same thing happened to you, don't despair. There is a way out of this situation and it is not at all difficult.
Open My Computer (or just Computer, as it is written in windows 7). We go to drive C. Open the Users (or Users) folder - Default (if you do not find the Default folder in the Users folder, see how to display hidden files / folders) - AppData - Roaming - Microsoft - windows. Here we delete the Recent folder.
We restart the computer.
Hooray! The Recent Places folder has disappeared from your desktop!
We go back to My Computer and follow the already known path: Users - Default - AppData - Roaming - Microsoft - windows. Create a Recent folder here (if it doesn't exist).
That's all! Good luck to all!
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windows 7: Putting Recent Places in the Start Menu
Recent Places is such a handy windows feature that allows you to open and save documents without digging into documents where they were opened from or where they were saved recently. Roughly speaking, for example, Microsoft Word instead of fumbling through the folders where we saved the document “before that document”, we open the recent places and see the folder with which we worked “three documents ago”. I assure you, when working with more than two folders, this feature speeds things up by dozens of orders. I'm talking about nerves in general. Searching among thousands of monotonous folders, albeit with different names, is still a pleasure. It looks like this:
What Recent Places Looks Like in Microsoft Word
"Recent Places" is not only in Microsoft Word, but wherever they are used dialog boxes Open-Save and so on. What to do if you don't see Recent Places at all? And how do you put Recent Places on the start menu?
If "Recent Places" disappeared altogether, then the answer is here: Recent places in windows 7 - what to do if they are not displayed?
Let's say we have everything in order and everything is in place, but we want the Recent Documents folder to be in the Start menu.
We do so.
Right-click "Start" - select "Properties"
We are looking for the item "Recent places" and check the box. OK.
Apply, OK.
windows 7: Recent documents in start menu
To add Recent Places to the Start menu in addition to the Recent Documents item, open Explorer, find the Recent Places shortcut in Favorites and drag it to the Start menu while holding left button mice. Position it there and release the left button. Everything, Recent Places is now in the Start menu.
Just drag Recent Places to the Start menu and drop it there.
The only thing to place on the right side of Recent Places will fail.
OK it's all over Now. We rejoice!
William Tsvetkov
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"Recent Places" in windows 7 disappeared - what to do?
Greetings to all readers of the computer blog compblog.ru!
Windows 7 has a very good feature"Recent Places". You can call it by right-clicking on the explorer icon in the taskbar. There you will see the folders you recently used, and also, here you can independently “pin” the most frequently used places on your computer. You can do this by "dragging" the desired folder from the Explorer window to the icon in the taskbar.
But it happens that a glitch / bug occurs, this function stops working correctly. What to do if this happens to you, I will tell in this short article.
Missing folder quick access panel windows 7
So, yesterday on my computer, when I right-clicked on "Explorer" next to the start button, I saw this picture:
That is, for no apparent reason, the panel disappeared quick access to folders. Strange, I thought.
I was too lazy to deal with the problem. But now, in order to find a specific, “favorite” folder, I had to dig for a long time in the explorer, instead of making a couple of mouse clicks. Slowly, laziness to carry out all these actions began to win, and I began to look for a solution to a non-standard problem. And I found it.
How to bring back the "recently used folders" menu in windows 7.
Do you think you need to put a "tick" somewhere? No, it's not that trivial. So here are 3 simple steps:
Pinned Folders and Recent Places Not Displaying in Windows 7 - [Solved]!
Hooray, after the reboot our favorite menu is back! The only negative is that you will need to re-pin the necessary folders.
Tags: windows 7, quick access, panel, fine-tuning
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We cover our tracks. How to force windows to delete history, logs, caches and forget everything - "Hacker"
Lists open files and connected USB devices, browser history, DNS cache - all this helps to find out what the user was doing. We have compiled step-by-step instructions on how to remove traces of your activities in different versions windows, Office and popular browsers. At the end of the article, you will find some scripts that will help you keep your machine clean automatically.
Let's start cleaning with lists of recent places and programs. The list of recent (in windows 10 - frequently used) programs is located in the main menu, and the list of recent places is in the explorer.
List of frequently used programs in windows 7 and 10 
List of frequently used folders and recent files How to turn off this mess? In windows 7 - right-click on the "Start" button, select "Properties" and in the window that appears, uncheck both checkboxes in the "Privacy" section.
Disable storage of the list of recent programs in windows 7 To clear the list of recent places and documents, you need to delete the contents of the %appdata%\Microsoft\windows\Recent directory. To do this, open a command prompt and run two commands:
Cd %appdata%\Microsoft\windows\Recent echo y | del *.*
It also does not hurt to delete the contents of the %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\ directory. It stores recent files that appear in the jump list:
cd %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\ echo y | del *.*
Further, these lines will be useful to us when we write our own script to clean the system from traces of our stay in it.
In order for recent files to be cleared automatically on exit, you need to enable the "Clear Recently Opened Documents History on Exit" policy, which is located in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar.
Now let's move on to windows 10. You can turn off the list of recently added and frequently used applications through the Settings window. Open it and go to the "Personalization" section, the "Start" item. Turn off everything in there.
Disable program list storage in windows 10 It seems that the problem is solved, but, alas, this is not entirely true. If you enable these parameters again, then all lists in the same composition will appear again. Therefore, you will have to disable this feature through group policy. Open gpedit.msc and navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. Enable the following policies:
- "Clearing the list of recently used programs for new users";
- "Clear the history of recently opened documents on exit";
- "Clear notification log on tile on exit";
- "Delete the list of programs pinned to the Start menu."
group policy Clearing recent places in windows 10 is easier than in the "seven". Open File Explorer, go to the "View" tab and click the "Options" button. In the window that appears, turn off the options "Show recently used files in the Quick Access Toolbar" and "Show frequently used folders in the Quick Access Toolbar". Don't forget to click the "Clear" button.
Folder options windows 10 As you can see, such a simple task as clearing the last objects has a rather difficult solution. Without editing group policies- nowhere.
At some secure facilities, only flash drives registered in the log are allowed to be connected to the computer. And, as usual, the magazine is the most common - paper. That is, the computer itself does not restrict the connection of unregistered drives in any way. Does not limit, but records! And if during the check they find that the user connected unregistered drives, he will have problems.
By no means do we advise you to try to steal military secrets, but the ability to clear the list of recently connected drives can come in handy in other life situations. To do this, look in the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\
Here they are - all the drives that you connected to your computer.
Registry key with drive connection history It would seem that you just need to take it and clean everything. But it was not there! Firstly, the permissions for these registry branches are set in such a way that you won’t delete anything even in the “seven”, not to mention the “ten”.
Oops…
Secondly, assigning rights and permissions manually takes a long time, especially if there are a lot of drives. Thirdly, admin rights will not help. The screenshot above was created when I performed the delete operation with just admin rights. Fourth, in addition to these two sections, you need to clean up a long list of sections. Moreover, they must not only be deleted, but correctly edited.
If for some reason you need to do everything manually, then look for keywords MountPoints, MountedDevices, DeviceClasses, and RemovableMedia. But it's much easier to use a ready-made program that will do everything for you. Some forums recommend USBDeview for this. However, I tested it and declare that it does not clean out information from all the necessary sections. USBSTOR and USB continue to contain information about connected media.
I can recommend the USB Oblivion program. Run it, check the "Perform a real cleaning" checkbox. You can turn on the “Save .reg-file of undo” option or not, but if the goal is not to check the program, but to prepare for the upcoming inspection of the computer, then it is better to turn it off.
USB Oblivion The program not only cleans the registry, but also displays a detailed log of its actions (see below). When it completes, there will be no mention of connecting drives to the computer.
Lists of open files and USB connected devices, browser history, DNS cache - all this helps to find out what the user was doing. We have compiled step by step instructions how to remove traces of your activities in different Windows versions, Office and popular browsers. At the end of the article, you will find some scripts that will help you keep your machine clean automatically.
1. Clearing lists of recent places and programs
Let's start cleaning with lists of recent places and programs. The list of recent (in Windows 10 - frequently used) programs is in the main menu, and the list of recent places is in File Explorer.
How to turn off this mess? In Windows 7 - right-click on the "Start" button, select "Properties" and in the window that appears, uncheck both checkboxes in the "Privacy" section.
To clear the list of recent places and documents, you need to delete the contents of the %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent directory. To do this, open command line and run two commands:
Cd %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent echo y | del *.*
It also doesn't hurt to delete the contents of the %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\ directory. It stores the latest files that appear in the jump list:
cd %appdata%\microsoft\windows\recent\automaticdestinations\ echo y | del *.*
To have recent files cleared automatically on exit, you need to enable the "Clear Recently Opened Documents History on Exit" policy, which is located in User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar.
Now let's move on to Windows 10. You can turn off the list of recently added and frequently used applications through the "Settings" window. Open it and go to the "Personalization" section, the "Start" item. Turn off everything in there.
It seems that the problem is solved, but, alas, this is not entirely true. If you enable these options again, then all lists in the same composition will appear again. Therefore, you will have to disable this feature through group policy. Open gpedit.msc and navigate to User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. Enable the following policies:
- "Clearing the list of recently used programs for new users";
- "Clear the history of recently opened documents on exit";
- "Clear notification log on tile on exit";
- "Remove the list of programs pinned to the start menu."
Clearing recent places in Windows 10 is easier than in the "seven". Open File Explorer, go to the "View" tab and click the "Options" button. In the window that appears, turn off the options "Show recently used files in the Quick Access Toolbar" and "Show frequently used folders in the Quick Access Toolbar". Don't forget to click the "Clear" button.
As you can see, a task as simple as clearing the last objects has a rather difficult solution. Without editing group policies - nowhere.
2. Clearing the list of USB drives
At some secure facilities, only flash drives registered in the log are allowed to be connected to the computer. And, as usual, the magazine is the most common - paper. That is, the computer itself does not in any way restrict the connection of unregistered drives. Does not limit, but records! And if during the check they find that the user connected unregistered drives, he will have problems.
By no means do we advise you to try to steal military secrets, but the ability to clear the list of recently connected drives can come in handy in other life situations. To do this, look in the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\
Here they are - all the drives that you connected to your computer.
It would seem that you just need to take it and clean everything. But it was not there! Firstly, the permissions for these registry branches are set in such a way that you won’t delete anything even in the “seven”, not to mention the “ten”.
Oops… Secondly, assigning rights and permissions manually takes a long time, especially if there are a lot of drives. Thirdly, admin rights will not help. The screenshot above was created when I performed the delete operation with just admin rights. Fourth, in addition to these two partitions, there is a long list of partitions to clean up. Moreover, they must not only be deleted, but correctly edited.
If for some reason you need to do everything manually, then search for the keywords MountPoints, MountedDevices DeviceClasses and RemovableMedia. But it is much easier to use a ready-made program that will do everything for you. Some forums recommend USBDeview for this. However, I tested it and declare that it does not clean out information from all the necessary sections. USBSTOR And USB continue to contain information about connected media.
I can recommend the program. Run it, check the "Perform a real cleaning" checkbox. You can turn on the “Save .reg-file of cancellation” parameter or not, but if the goal is not to check the program, but to prepare for the upcoming computer inspection, then it is better to turn it off.
The program not only cleans the registry, but also displays a detailed log of its actions (see below). When it finishes, there will be no mention of connecting drives to the computer.
3. Clear cache and browser history
The third item in our tudu is clearing the cache and browser history. There are no difficulties here - each browser allows you to reset the list of recently visited sites.
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The Windows XP Start menu contains a list of recently used files. As you know in Windows XP, the Start menu can have two appearances: Start Menu And Classic start menu. The list of recently used files in them is displayed differently, called differently, and you need to work with it in different ways.
Start menu.
6. In the "Recent documents" section, check the box "Display a list of recently used documents";
7. Click the "OK" button;
Opening the Recent Documents folder.
1. Click the "Start" button;
2. Select the "Recent Documents" folder;
Clear the contents of the Recent Documents folder.
1. Right click on the "Start" button;
2. Select the "Properties" menu item;
3. Go to the "Start Menu" tab;
4. Click the "Configure" button.
5. Go to the "Advanced" tab;
6. In the "Recent Documents" section, click on the "Clear List" button;
7. Click the "OK" button;
Classic start menu.
Displays the Recent Documents folder.
It is always displayed and is called "Documents";
Opening the Documents folder.
1. Click the "Start" button;
2. Select the "Documents" folder;
3. Now you can select the file you want to open;
4. Click the "Configure" button.
5. In the "Composition of the Start Menu" section, click on the "Clear" button;
6. Click the "OK" button;
