Windows 10: How to change icons for shortcuts pinned to Quick Access in the File Explorer?

I'm freaking out! I've been desperately trying to change the icon for hours, tried symbolic links, shortcuts to shortcuts and all that sketchy stuff but no success. As soon as you pin a shortcut to Quick Access, it WILL always show the icon of the folder it links to. Outrageous!

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File Explorer - Pinning / Quick Access

Did the below two functions not use to be two separate things? Now changes in the one reflects on the other, meaning the are 100 % alike.

• Pinning folders to the Windows File Explorer icon on the taskbar
  
• Pinning to Quick Access Panel in the left panel on opening Windows File Explorer
  

The Office programs still works like this (distinguish between pinned to "the bar" or to "quick access"), and I get puzzled that Windows File Explorer does not work like this (anylonger?).

Can anyone confirm and maybe even supply solution for me?

BR

Susanne

 

Pin FTP Location to Quick Access in Win Explorer


I have a link to an FTP folder that I can not get to pin to Win Explorer Quick Launch. The shortcut appears in c:\users\[user name]\links but does not appear in the quick access list.

Opening the file in Win Explorer and right clicking on "Quick access" with the option "pin to quick access" does nothing and there is no option in right click list to "pin to quick access" or even "pin to start" for a .lnk file.

 

File Explorer Quick Access trouble.. Cannot pin items

File Explorer is behaving weird - I cannot pin items to Quick Access. When I pin items they won't appear to QA. Also when dragging items to QA nothing happens and there's a small icon indicating that is not possible.

I did some "tweaks" with Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.5 but I haven't found a setting there that could of made QA to not function.

I did some steps as remedy that I found with Google but those didn't help.

Any suggestions?