Windows 10: How to show or remove Quick access and Favorites from Navigation Pane of Explorer

If your Windows 10 File Explorer does not display Quick access or Favorites in the navigation pane, or you want to remove or hide them, […]

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Remove Quick access from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  


I followed the steps in the this tutorial and was able to remove the Quick Access feature from the navigation pane of Windows Explorer - thanks for this.

However, the Quick Access feature can still be seen in the navigation pane of the save dialog explorer when trying to save a file from a web browser, for example. Do you have any tips on how to remove the Quick Access feature from this location as well?

 

Remove Quick access from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  


Well, in windows 10, microsoft not only replaced the old "favorites" in navigation pane of explorer with quick access (merging it with recent places), but also merged them with explorer's jump list. It is now not possible to pin some dirs in jumplists without pinning them also in quick access...

So, is there any way to restore the old and independed "favorites" menu in navigation pane? Note that the "links" folder remain into the user folder in windows 10?

 

Remove Quick access from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  

Hello Valenti,

I'm not aware of a way to replace Quick access with the old Favorites since that has been completely changed in Windows 10.

However, you could add Favorites to Quick access if you like.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html