Stop enemies dropping items on death

Enemies often drop equipped weapons, shields and torches when they die, which often results in the player having to search a large area full of tall grass or the items falling through the floor and disappearing forever. Is there a way to disable this behavior and make the corpses hold onto the mementos of their life for my looting convenience?

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AFAIK there is no mod that does this for Oblivion. What I normally do is turn off the grass layer (press ~ to open the console then type tg, enter) when I want to find equipment that drops on the ground.

This takes immersion away but it's better than spending a couple of minutes looking for a weapon in the grass only to find it on the bottom of the hill. There is no hot key for it – I already looked for it pretty hard – but if you can make macro's this would be much more comfortable. You might want to look into an autohotkey script, it's quite easy to understand.