!PopupRecenDocuments problem Thread last updated on 2004-07-23 00:27:11

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-06-28 19:54:29

It works ok on explorer but when on LS, I can see them but they dont update,at all even recycling several times.
Im the administrator on XP pro.
Please help,
I like LS but this is bottering me a lot.
What an I doing wrong.
I log in explorer same way I log In LS.

Posted by member 48370 on 2004-06-30 03:22:57 link

this list isnt updated because explorer does log and refresh this list and since its not the shell anymore it stops doing that - LS doesnt keep track of your opened files either, but every better app does that for you anyway like Word, Textpad, bsplayer, whatever

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-06-30 05:35:34 link

That dont seem right, cause LS does update the list on My 98SE system.
and if that were true what would be the sence of having a !PopupRecentDocument command.

Posted by member 48370 on 2004-06-30 05:58:30 link

well, you got a point there ... but its not working on my winxp system - lets wait for someone who knows better ...

Posted by member 7 on 2004-07-02 10:42:07 link

SHAddToRecentDocs (the API which your programs use to add files to that menu) appears to depend on explorer on NT-based Windows versions. As always the inner workings are undocumented. The problem is known; the only workaround that I can think of is using RdocEx from mlin.net.

Posted by member 173326 on 2004-07-23 00:27:11 link

I downloaded RdocEx (Mike Lin has such great tools!) But I don't see how it fixes this problem.