Windows 10: Add or Remove User Folder from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

How to: Add or Remove User Folder from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove User Folder in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 10


A user profile is a collection of settings that make the computer look and work the way you want it to for a user account. It is stored in the user's C:\Users\<user name> profile folder, and contains the account's settings for desktop backgrounds, screen savers, pointer preferences, sound settings, and other features. User profiles ensure that your personal preferences are used whenever you sign in to Windows.

A user's profile folder also contains their personal folders such as the Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Music, OneDrive, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, and Videos folders.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the user profile folder from the navigation pane of File Explorer for only your account in Windows 10.

*note If you have Show all folders turned on for the navigation pane, then your user profile folder will still show until Show all folders is turned off.


EXAMPLE: User folder added to navigation pane of File Explorer






Here's How:

*note The downloadable .reg files below will add and modify the DWORD in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{59031a47-3f72-44a7-89c5-5595fe6b30ee}

System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree DWORD

1 = add
0 = remove


1. Do step 2 (add) or step 3 (remove) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Add User Folder to Navigation Pane of Current User
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Add_User_Folder_to_Navigation_Pane.reg

Download

3. To Remove User Folder from Navigation Pane of Current User
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Remove_User_Folder_from_Navigation_Pane

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. When finished, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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How to get Windows 10 file explorer navigation pane to have same layout as it had in windows 7 and 8.0?

Miek,

All libraries entries are just shortcuts to folders.

If you want to get rid of the Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos entries under This PC you can. See

This PC 'Folders' - Add or Remove in Windows 10 - TenForums

You can also remove the entry for OneDrive -
Add or Remove from Navigation Pane - TenForums

Denis

 

Modify Navigation Pane

Thank you, sorry it has taken so long to follow up.

The suggested actions did not resolve the problem. I want to add/remove items from the navigation pane (left hand side) of a windows explorer window. When I reset the folders, it did remove my libraries from the navigation pane; which I expected. They
are not hard to get back so that is not an issue.

The current issue is I want to remove "Dropbox" from the navigation pane. More fundamentally, I want the ability to remove or add items to the navigation pane.

 

Hello Jerry, *Smile

If you like, you could hide those folders and set Windows to Don't show hidden files, folders, and drives to no longer see them.

*Arrow Set or Unset Hidden Attribute of Files and Folders in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials

 

How to still hide it when Show all folders are enabled ?!

 

That's normal when you have turned on "Show all folders". *Sad

However, you should still be able to use the method in the tutorial below to remove it.

*Arrow User Folder - Add or Remove from Navigation Pane - Windows 7 Help Forums