Policy

Maximum number of recent documents

Microsoft Windows

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > File Explorer
Supported on
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, Windows7, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

"This policy setting allows you to set the maximum number of shortcuts the system can display in the Recent Items menu on the Start menu. The Recent Items menu contains shortcuts to the nonprogram files the user has most recently opened. If you enable this policy setting, the system displays the number of shortcuts specified by the policy setting. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default, the system displays shortcuts to the 10 most recently opened documents."

Internal name
MaxRecentDocs
Policy ID
9d478595de7c
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
User
Maximum number of recent documents
ID MaxRecentDocs
decimal
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
MaxRecentDocs
Type
REG_DWORD
None
Maximum number of recent documents
User · Type decimal
Registry mapping
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
MaxRecentDocs
Type
REG_DWORD
DetailsNone