Hi,
Given John's warning, here is how you can do it with Access 2003 or
2007. WARNING: Usage of the following is entirely at your own risk.
Failure to follow the instructions exactly may cause a problem. This works
on Windows XP Pro with SP3. It should work on other versions of Windows, but
I have not tested it with any other version.
Open up NotePad. Copy the appropriate set of "reg delete..."
statements and paste them into NotePad, nine times. In case the discussion
reader causes wrapping, each "reg edit..." line is all one line, with the
items separated by spaces. Next edit the, list changing the 1 just before
the end of each batch of succeeding lines to the next number higher so that
you have nine batches of lines, numbering from 1 through 9.
Access 2003:
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Access\Settings /v MRU1 /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Access\Settings /v MRUFlags1 /f
Access 2007:
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Access\Settings /v MRU1 /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Access\Settings /v MRUDate1 /f
reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Access\Settings /v MRUFlags1 /f
Save the file with a name something like "Clear Access Recent Files
List.bat". It must end in ".bat". For ease of use you can save it to your
desktop, but anywhere is fine. Close out of NotePad.
To do the deletion, first make sure you are not running Access and then
double-click on the file. You can run the process whenever you want.
Clifford Bass
