Do not add shares of recently opened documents to Network Locations

Remote shared folders are not added to Network Locations whenever you open a document in the shared folder.

If you disable this setting or do not configure it, when you open a document in a remote shared folder, the system adds a connection to the shared folder to Network Locations.

If you enable this setting, shared folders are not added to Network Locations automatically when you open a document in the shared folder.

Supported on: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only

Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value NameNoRecentDocsNetHood
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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