Tweak Library – Remove cascading effect of “My Recent Documents” items in the new Start menu.

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Remove cascading effect of “My Recent Documents” items in the new Start menu.

This setting enables you to control the display of “My Recent Documents” either as a folder link or cascaded menu in the new Start menu.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003

Description:

Cascaded menu makes the items behave like menus with submenus instead of just opening the related folder. With this setting, you can make the “My Recent Documents” display its items by opening a folder link rather than as a cascaded menu.

For this, go to Start > Run, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a DWORD value “Start_ShowRecentDocs”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “1” which can show “My Recent Documents” items as a folder link. However, if you want to cascade the items back, change the value data to “2”.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
This setting will have no effect if you use the Classic Start menu display in Windows.

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Cascade Recent Docs in Start Menu (Default).reg

The '.reg' file can cascade "My Recent Documents" items in the new Start menu.

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Show Recent Docs in Start Menu.Reg

The '.reg' file can show the "My Recent Documents" items in the new Start menu as folder link.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Start_ShowRecentDocs

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

Cascading “My Recent Documents” items inside the new Start menu is disabled.

Cascading “My Recent Documents” items inside the new Start menu is enabled.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\] and create a new 'DWORD value' as "Start_ShowRecentDocs".

Right Click on "Start_ShowRecentDocs" and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'.