Windows 10: Cannot drag folders to Quick Access after much consternation

I have researched my tail off. Tried everything from registry changes to deleting AppData/.... files to changing Explorer options to doing that scan thing from the command line that says everything is in order andstill can't get folders to drop into Quick Access. It puts a red circle with line through it like a not allowed road sign in US when i hover the drag over the Quick Folder destination in the navigation pane.


What can be done or am I permanently disabled for this feature?


Thanks.

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Quick Access bar

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

We would be glad to help you with the issue you are facing today. I understand the difficulty.

Remove items from Quick access.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps.

• Right click on the file or folder.
• Select the option “unpin from the quick access”

To pin items to an item already on the quick access bar.

Follow the below steps.

I would suggest you to create folder in the desktop screen & place all the files or folder which need to pin to the quick access.

• Open the quick access.
• Select the Desktop option.
• Right click on the folder & select the option “pin to quick access”

Hope this helps in resolving the issue. If the issue persists, do get back to us. We will be happy to assist you.



Thank you.

 

bug: quick access folders are moving around

Thank you for letting us know.

Try these steps for us to reset Quick access:

• Right-click on Quick access then select Options.
• Go to the View tab.
• Click on Reset Folders.
• Select Yes.

Afterwards, try to manually sort your folders again by dragging them to your desired position. The order of the folders should now be retained after relaunching File Explorer.

Let us know if it works.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.