Disable autorecovery in Word and Excel via group Policy fails

hello everybody,
I have to disable the autorecovery - and unsaved functions in the office 2010 suite on winXPsp3.
In the group policy console i set the function to "disabled" , so on the client side in the registry the values for:
software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\excel\options\KeepUnsavedChanges =0
software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\excel\options\AutoRecoverEnabled =0
software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\word\options\KeepUnsavedChanges =0
software\policies\microsoft\office\14.0\word\options\AutoRecoverEnabled =0
appear. This works fine on Powerpoint, but in Excel and Word users still have the chance to enable autorecovery from the "file" menu on the client. Time settings are greyed out, but by activating autorecovery, settings are configurable again.
Any idea where else i could configure "autorecovery" and "KeepUnsavedChanges" to be unavailable for the customer ?
thank you in advance,
Hennes

Hi Everybody,
we finally found something close to our wishes together with MS Support ( the answer was just a few dollars away !) We had to configure exactly the opposite of what we want and combine it with a senseless time interval......tataaaaa We´re done !
If you want to deactivate autoRecovery, you have to set "AutoRecoverEnabled" to "activate" and select a time interval for "save AutoRecover info every X minutes" of "0" minutes. Then the option will be greyed out , although the customer might reactivate
it by checking the box. Anyhow, files will be deleted at logoff and there are no recoverable files left on the Client .
(although this function is very smart on your personal windows-client, we needed to get rid of it on some public Terminals where workers without personal account write their reports and other personalized dokuments)
It works! In my case (Word 2010 on Win2008 terminal server) I only had to enable the 'Save AutoRecover info' setting and put a value of 0.
Thank you

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