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 path: 

Desktop

Scope: 

User

Supported on: 

Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 only

Registry settings: 

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer!NoRecentDocsNetHood

Filename: 

Desktop.admx

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