Windows 10: Change Sort Order of OneDrive Root Folders in Explorer left navigation

I have a personal OneDrive account and 2 sometimes 3+ OneDrive for business accounts associated with different tenants. I suspect many of us with multiple accounts might like to manually set the order these appear, but they seem locked into an alphabetic-only sort order. Is it possible to re-order either the OneDrive root folders at the top the blue OneDrive icons that start with "Colin - ..." under "Home" or the default system-pinned QuickAccess folders in the section below that? It looks like you can drag-and-drop them, but nothing happens when you do that with the OneDrive folders. For

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OneDrive missing from Windows Explorer navigation pane

When I first cleaned installed Windows 10 v1809 on my machine I applied a Group Policy setting for OneDrive to Prevent the Usage of OneDrive for File Storage to ENABLED. Of course, that would remove the OneDrive from the left side navigation pane within Windows File Explorer. But now, I set the Group Policy back to NOT CONFIGURED, rebooted the machine and the OneDrive is still missing from the the left side of the Windows File Explorer navigation pane as shown in my image. I even performed the command GPUPDATE /FORCE.

My laptop is a standalone, not part of a Domain.

I tried all the things listed from the article below but with no luck. I also was able to sign in with my OneDrive account and that was all fine and OneDrive appeared on the File Explorer pane. But once I UNLINKED my account from OneDrive, the OneDrive was still missing.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-b74545c7f4da

Even if no Group Policies are set, and even NOT signing into OneDrive, by default, the OneDrive icon should still appear on the left side navigation pane when launching Windows File Explorer.

And suggestions?

My guess is to recreate my user profile, but I don't really want to do that now.

 

Windows 10 Explorer navigation pane order

Hey there,

I'm trying to find out, if there is any way to rearrange the order of items in the Windows 10 explorer's navigation pane (the one on the left hand side).
Currently, the "Quick Access" list is on top, followed by "OneDrive" and "This PC" is the last one.
I'd like to have "This PC" on top, then "OneDrive" and then "Quick Access".

Also, I'd like to know, if it is possible to change the order of items in the "This PC"-category. I tried with the Winareo Tweaker, but it looks like there is no option for this customization. :-/

Thanks for any reply in advance!

 

Changing listing order of files and folders in File Explorer

When you log into an account for the first time there is a chance to decline OneDrive "protection" for your user folders, but it's easy to miss (this is by design, no doubt). It's this automatic "backup" that hijacks folder locations. Sothe first thing to do is check OneDrive settings & make sure backup is disabled for your user folders. This is done via Manage Backup on the Backup tab of the OneDrive settings dialog (right-click the SysTray icon):



When you do this, the folders under This PC will once again point to the folders in your UserProfile folder and not OneDrive. Files must be moved manually.

Once you do this, your user folders are local and only files you explicitly place in the OneDrive folders will be synced to OneDrive.

To move OneDrive to a lower position in the Navigation Pane, set the value of the DWORD value SortOrderIndex under the registry key:

Code:

to a value like 88. (create the value if it doesn't exist)