Tweak number of “recent documents” in Windows XP?

Question

Is there a way to change the number of "recently opened documents" in the Start menu of Windows XP?

Answer 1

The registry key

KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\MaxRecentDocs

controls the number of documents in the Recent Documents folder.

Here's a reg file from Kelly's Korner (210/R), changing the value to 25

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"MaxRecentDocs"=dword:00000019

copy/paste into notepad, save as maxrecent25.reg and import.