Windows 10: Folders are automatically added to the quick access

How to stop folders from automatically adding into Quick access please?

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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.

 

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That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date.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.

 

Explorer not automatically refreshing if there are folders in quick access

I like to use quick access for projects I'm actively working on. The project folders are located on another computer on our hardwired office network accessed via a mapped network drive. If I have anything pinned to the quick access list (I turn off the
recent files option), within a day, Windows Explorer stops automatically refreshing. There only needs to be one folder pinned. Moved files, copies, etc. don't show up correctly until I manually refresh. I know this norefresh issue is known and common, but
I'm not finding it linked to quick access. Tried all the other fixes out there, which didn't work, and finally stumbled across this quick access link. As soon as I remove all the folders from the quick access list, auto refresh starts working again. I only
use quick access for network folders, not sure if it happens with local folders, I'm testing that today. Other windows 10 computers in my office have folders from this location pinned to their quick access with no issues.

I really want to use quick access, but the auto refresh thing is a deal breaker. Anybody have a fix or workaround? Btw, I have added the norefresh line to my registry, didn't fix it.