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I work mostly in Word, sometime Excel (MS Office Home and Business 2010). Sometimes, the recent documents window is pretty large, which is what I like. Other times, it's gone. To clarify, I reach that window by clicking File, and the list appears. I cannot figure out what causes it to disappear. I'd like it stay full of the documents I most often use. I have set the number of recent documents at 25.

So what am I doing to trigger clearing of the recent documents? Or is it a setting?

Thanks.
 

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Do you use anything like CCleaner?
If so, you need to uncheck Office 2010 under the Applications tab..
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:doh:Of course! CCleaner and GlaryUtilities. I'll tinker with them to leave recent docs alone. Thanks, Irene.
 

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:doh:Of course! CCleaner and GlaryUtilities. I'll tinker with them to leave recent docs alone. Thanks, Irene.

You're welcome, gogreen. :D
 

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(1) Intel(R) HD Graphics (2) VNC Mirror Driver
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Realtek High Definition Audio
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Excuse the interruption, now that one of you guys mentioned "Glary Utilities"....I was wondering if the rumours about it were true...that it actually spreads viruses or something like that.
 

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Excuse the interruption, now that one of you guys mentioned "Glary Utilities"....I was wondering if the rumours about it were true...that it actually spreads viruses or something like that.

I don't think so.
 

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Viruses, no. But what do you mean by "or something like that"?

Some free programs ask if you want to install various toolbars. Is that what you mean? I don't recall at the moment if Glary Utilities is one of them--maybe I'm thinking of CCleaner. Either way, during installation just uncheck what you don't want installed.
 

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8.0 GB Dual Channel DDR3 @ 664 MHz (9-9-9-24)
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nVidia GeForce GTS 240
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977 GB Western Digital WDC WD1001FAES-75W7A0 (SCSI)
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Viruses, no. But what do you mean by "or something like that"?

Some free programs ask if you want to install various toolbars. Is that what you mean? I don't recall at the moment if Glary Utilities is one of them--maybe I'm thinking of CCleaner. Either way, during installation just uncheck what you don't want installed.
By "something like that, I meant malware in general...but thanks (luckily, I DO NOT trust CCleaner because it deleted important files of my system and I had to format my PC)
 

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Well, I've been using CCleaner and Glary Utilities for some years now, and I've never had that kind of problem. You can set up both programs so that they show you what'll be deleted before doing so. In CCleaner, hit the "analyze" button at lower left. In Glary Utilities, the "analyze" button is at the upper left.
 

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nVidia GeForce GTS 240
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977 GB Western Digital WDC WD1001FAES-75W7A0 (SCSI)
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Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird. Western Digital Passport 250 GB external HD, two Mushkin Enhanced Mulholland 32GB USB flash drives, AKG K240 Studio headphones, Asus AC-1900 dual band wireless router.
Well, I've been using CCleaner and Glary Utilities for some years now, and I've never had that kind of problem. You can set up both programs so that they show you what'll be deleted before doing so. In CCleaner, hit the "analyze" button at lower left. In Glary Utilities, the "analyze" button is at the upper left.
Once again, thank you :):)
 

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Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1
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Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T6500 @ 2.10GHz
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TOSHIBA Portable PC (CPU
Memory
313GB TOSHIBA TOSHIBA MK3263GSX, 3GB RAM
Graphics Card(s)
Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Sound Card
Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
1x; Generic PnP Monitor |
Screen Resolution
1366 X 768 - 32 bit
Hard Drives
313GB TOSHIBA TOSHIBA MK3263GSX
Keyboard
Standard PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse
Synaptics PS/2 Port TouchPad
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