For example, to turn off Recently Used Documents but leave Recently Used Applications and Recently Used Servers turned on, set the Recently Used Documents value to zero in the Apple Menu Options control panel. See Figure 1.
Figure 1 Turning Off Recently Used Documents
To turn off all recently used items, deselect the "Remember recently used items" option by clicking the checkbox.
When a submenu is turned off and you close the Apple Menu Options window, the corresponding Recently Used Items folder and its contents are moved to the Trash.
Note: The folder contains only aliases to the recently used items; the actual items are not moved to the Trash.
For related information on this topic, refer to the following documents:
Document 30004: "Apple Menu Options: Not Creating Recent Document Aliases"
Document 60762: "Mac OS 9: Missing Apple Menu Items Could Be Due to Damaged Preferences"