Recent documents in start up

I am not sure that I understand what you wish to do.

There are some options for what appears on the start menu of XP if you download and install the TweakUI power toy for XP from Microsoft's web site.

TweakUI allows you to easily change a lot of settings that are normally only available from doing a registry edit.

Chas

Right-click on Start --> Properties --> Start Menu --> Customize -->Advanced --> and in the "Start menu items:" box, make sure that "My Documents" is checked in "Display as a link"

And then down below that there a recent documents box.... makesure that "List my most recently opened documents" is checked if you want those to appear in the start menu.