Policy

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Desktop
Policy ID cfc9cad3a5c5
Internal name NoRecentDocsNetHood

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRecentDocsNetHood (enabled) = 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRecentDocsNetHood (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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