OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS LIST

[jfguerra]

Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word,
Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot
(which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can
use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again
and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used.
But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents
list.
I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel
Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to
zero.
Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for
any advice or guidance.

 

[Daddy]

Have you installed any so-called cleaner or clean-up programs? These often have a setting to erase recently viewed files. TweakUI also has a setting for this, as does some security software.

Daddy

 

[jfguerra]

Actually, I just figured it out (I think). I was emptying my Recycle Bin
with the "Clean Recycle Bin and Privacy" option. I believe that may have
been the problem. Sorry for the confusion!