kathyk

Oh thanks, I got it to work. It was "quote area" versus "code" that confused me. I ended up having to copy the "code" part. I'll try it in a month or so! Kathy

Okay, remember, I don't know anything about this! So whatever you're talking about would not be done in CCleaner at all? I just copied FileKey1=%appdata%\Microsoft\Office\Recent|*.*, pressed Windows Start and Run and pasted it in. (I also tried it without the "FileKey1=".) Got an error message. Am I in the wrong place, doing the wrong thing, or what? Kathy

Thanks, Davey! I just tried unchecking Office XP and my settings are still intact. Guess that's how I'll keep it. Now, to use Disk4mat's suggestion of cleaning the "Recent" files once a month or so, is there a way to do that and still keep my settings? Kathy

I just remembered that I didn't like my newest version of Word and instead reinstalled my old one, and that's what I'm using. In Windows Explorer I see Office 10, Office 11, and Office 12, and it's Office 10 that my desktop shortcut opens. However, in CCleaner I have three options: Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office XP. I just tried unchecking them one at a time and looking at the list when I run Analyze, and as far as I can tell, there's no difference at all in the list of files that comes up. The path is always ....Application Data/Microsoft/Office/Recent/... The files all have LNK in their names. I haven't actually run CCleaner yet since we started this conversation, so I can't yet tell whether it's going to also grab my settings changes. But it certainly looks at a glance like unchecking the Office boxes makes no difference.

Thank you. Am I to assume, then, that not removing the registry entries associated with Word is all right in the long run? Kathy

I have this same program. I want to keep my new window size, my display settings, and my MRU documents in MS Word. But if I uncheck Office XP in CCleaner, will it still delete the temporary files I probably want deleted? I'm afraid I don't understand the complicated discussion above about rem-ing out certain lines. If it solves this problem, could someone make the explanation a bit more understandable? Thanks! Kathy