Windows 10 keep track of documents you run; these documents will be shown in Start Menu. If you don’t want the recently used documents to be shown on your Start Menu or Taskbar, you can do that by configuring the Start Menu settings. To configure your Start Menu you will have to use the Group Policy Editor. If you are confused what “Clear history of recently opened documents on exit” means then we will try to explain in the following picture. As you can see in the picture below, whenever you open a word document they will appear in the recent used documents in Start Menu. So, if you don’t want to keep track of recent documents, you can configure the Start Menu using the Group Policy Editor.
Note: If you configure your Start Menu not to display recently used documents, these documents will disappear from the Start Menu after you log off of your computer.
Step 1: To start, you’ll need to open Group Policy Editor, go to the start menu and write: “Gpedit.msc “.
Select “OK” and the Group Policy Editor window will show up like in the following picture.
Step 2: To configure “Clear history of recent opened documents on exit you�, you will have to select the Administrative Templates policy, then Start Menu and Task bar like in the picture below.
Select “Clear history of recent opened documents on exit you” then press “Enter” or “Policy Settings” and the following window will show up. If you want to delete the shortcuts of recently used documents from the Start Menu then enable this policy. Otherwise select “Not Configured” or “Disabled”. When you enable this policy, all the recently used documents shortcuts will be deleted after you log off and you log in back.
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