>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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