Windows 10: Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10

Brink, after your confirmation that the reg hack worked for you in 10162, I tried again and was successful...thanks for the reply.

 

Great news Dave. *Smile

 

Hey Brother,

Thanks for the hack, worked fine with Win 10 Pro 64bit build 10162, as did the tutorial to remove OneDrive.

The tutorials, to remove Libraries and Homegroup didn't work though. Any chance you could do a hack for those too, please?

Many thanks.

 

Glad they could help Nus, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

The Libraries tutorial for the navigation pane still works in build 10162, but I'll have to look further in the Homegroup one.

 

IMO, the Navigation Pane is too cluttered in W10.
I haven't tried your fix yet, but I'm definitely going to need to use it in the future. *Smile

 

Nus, the Homegroup hack did not work for me either in 10162 until I disabled Homegroup Provider and Listener in Services. as Edwin pointed out in a previous post.

 

Thanks for teh welcome.

Just to clarify, turning off libraries using the pop-up menu in the navigation pane works, but only with 'Show all folders' turned off as well.

I like to have 'Show all folders' turned so I can see Recycle Bin, Desktop, User Folder & Control Panel. I suppose using 'Quick Access' shortcuts for these would be a work around, but still, it would be cool to remove the Library with 'Show all folders' on.

Cheers for your efforts.

 

That did the trick, thanks bro.

 

In that case, Option Four below should do that for you, but I haven't tested it in Windows 10 yet. *Smile

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...-explorer.html

 

Thank you, brother.

That works perfectly in Win 10 64bit Release 10162.

Libraries have been removed from the navigation pane regardless of whether 'Show libraries' and 'Show all folders' are ticked or not.

Cheers

 

Never mind. Tutorial works.


Looks like MS has changed reg keys, (again *Mad) in build 10166. Old keys won't work, but there are the ones:

Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}][/quote] Save as: Remove Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc on Windows 10.reg

And:

Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{1CF1260C-4DD0-4ebb-811F-33C572699FDE}] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{3ADD1653-EB32-4cb0-BBD7-DFA0ABB5ACCA}] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A0953C92-50DC-43bf-BE83-3742FED03C9C}] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{A8CDFF1C-4878-43be-B5FD-F8091C1C60D0}] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}][/quote] Save as: Restore Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc on Windows 10.reg

 

Hello Kizo, *Smile

I'm not sure what you mean. The keys for the user folders in your post already in the .reg files in the tutorial.

The "DelegateFolders" key in your post above is not part of the user folders, and should not be included.

The tutorial still works for me in both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10 build 10166.

 

Sorry, my bad. I haven't downloaded and tested the latest one, I extracted it myself from registry, without cutting off ''DelegatFolders''.

Corrected.

 

No problem. Glad to hear they are working for you as well. *Smile

 

This tweak broke shortcuts to folders in start menu. For example, the Downloads folder won't open:
The item "Downloads" that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved, so this shortcut will no longer work properly.