Windows 10: Add or Remove Documents Library in Windows 10

How to: Add or Remove Documents Library in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove Documents Library in Windows 10


Information remove folders and drives to be included in a library as you like.

Windows 10 has the Videos libraries by default.

The C:\Users\<user name>\Documents folder is included by default in the Documents library.

If you don't need or want the Documents library, then you can remove it from showing in Libraries.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Documents library showing in Libraries for all users in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to add or remove the Documents library.

EXAMPLE: Documents library in Libraries






Here's How:

1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you want.


2. To Add Documents library
NOTE: This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .reg file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_Documents_library.reg

Download

3. To Remove Documents library
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the .reg file below for your step 4 below.

32-bit_Remove_Documents_library.reg

Download

OR

64-bit_Remove_Documents_library.reg

Download

4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If File Explorer is currently open, then close and reopen it to apply.

8. If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Library, Documents listed twice

In Windows Explorer, Library has Documents and others listed. When Document is expanded there are two occurrences of Documents. How do I remove one of them?

 

Remove Music, Pictures, Videos folders from Documents Library?

I'm using Windows 10 and have no use for the Music, Pictures, and Videos folders that appear in the Documents library. I want to remove them, or at the very least hide them from the folder listing. It's very annoying that Windows doesn't want to let you
do that.

To be clear, I'm not talking about removing them from the explorer left side panel. I want to stop them from showing up in the Documents list. Does anyone know a simple way to do this? Thanks.

 

How to stop Windows 10 adding \Documents to Documents library


I've been using Windows 10 for a few months. In the past month or so, it has started adding %USERPROFILE%\Documents to my Documents library every time I restart. I don't want this to happen.

The folders I want in my Documents library are
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Documents (default)
%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents
C:\Users\Public\Documents

I don't want %USERPROFILE%\Documents in the library because Windows and various applications put folders in there that I hardly ever need to look at (Scanned Documents, Fax, Downloads, etc.) I put my real documents in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Documents (which I created).

For the past month or so, Windows 10 has added %USERPROFILE%\Documents to the Documents library every time I restart, and also made it the default save location. If I remove it from the library, it is added again next time I restart. How do I stop this happening?

 

Delete a Library in Windows 10

Hi,

Thank you for being part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are happy to help you.

I would suggest you to restore the Libraries and then try deleting the Library folder.

Follow the below steps.

• Press Windows + E keys from the Keyboard to open the
  File Explorer.
• Locate Libraries from the left pane.
• Right click on Libraries and select Restore default libraries option from the list.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are happy to assist you.

Thank you.