Simple Application of group policies: allows the system to "forget" document usage records

Windows XP Group PolicyAdministrators define and control programs, network resources, and operating system behaviors for users and computers.

You can set various software, computer, and user policies by using Windows XP group policies. For example, you can use "Group Policy" to delete icons from the desktop, customize the "Start" menu, and simplify the "control panel ". In addition, you can add scripts that run on the computer when the computer is started or stopped, and when the user is logged on or logged off), or even configure Internet Explorer.

This article describes how to set a Windows XP group policy so that the Windows XP system does not record file usage records.

By default, in Windows XP, the "documents" in the "Start" menu keeps the document records recently used by users, so that users can use them again in the future. But what if we don't want the computer to keep the most recently used document records for privacy protection?

Here we can use the Windows XP Group Policy Manager. The method is as follows.

1. Run the gpedit. msc command from the Start Menu.

2. Open the "Group Policy Manager" Window

3. Select "user configuration"> "management module"> "Taskbar and Start Menu" () from the navigation menu on the left "()

4. Then find the "do not keep records of recently opened documents" option in the list on the right.

5. Double-click this option to open the Properties window.

6. On the "Settings" tab, select "enabled" and click "OK"

In this way, our computer will no longer keep the document records we use, isn't it easy?

The small group policy application is so simple that everyone can do it by themselves.