Note that the Registry Edit Presented here only seems to run on Win98 and up machines... 
 not win95...

I have written the following javascript that can be run using the Windows Scripting 
Agent "WScript.exe"  It will recursively go through the profiles directory and delete 
all of the files in each of the recent directories (For both the Documents in the 
startmenu and the Recently Used Files in the Office Programs)... ust copy the text 
below into notepad and save as "whatever_you_want_to_call_it.js"  and it can be run 
by either (a) double clicking it or (b) running "c:\windows\wscript.exe whatever_you_want_to_call_it.js" 
from the command line... If you want to understand how this is working go to http:\\msdn.microsoft.com\ 
and search for Windows Scripting Host for info on how Wscript runs.  You can also 
download the Windows Scripting host from here too if you don't have it.  I have posted 
this because the batch file that is on this page does not handle the instance where 
you have multiple profiles on a PC.  If you decide to use this you are using it at 
your own risk...  I believe it to be work correctly, but don't be e-mailing me if 
you can't get it to work.  thanks and enjoy...

var fso, f, fc, fso2;
fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
fso2 = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
f = fso.GetFolder("c:\\windows\\profiles");
fc = new Enumerator(f.SubFolders);
for (; !fc.atEnd(); fc.moveNext())
{
   if (fso2.FolderExists(fc.item() + "\\Recent"))
      fso2.DeleteFile(fc.item() + "\\Recent\\*.*");
   if (fso2.FolderExists(fc.item() + "\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Office\\Recent"))
      fso2.DeleteFile(fc.item() + "\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Office\\Recent\\*.*");
}
   if (fso2.FolderExists("c:\\windows\\Recent"))
      fso2.DeleteFile("c:\\windows\\Recent\\*.*");

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