Windows 10: Remove or Disable Drive Tools tab in WIndows File Explorer

Need to remove or disable Drive Tools tab in WIndows File Explorer where options Optimize, Cleanup and Format are available.


Using Windows Home Edition.

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

File Explorer- no drive letters are listed.

The File Explorer in Windows 10, shows the Frequent folders list and Recent files list by default. You can view the drives by clicking on This PC tab on the left site of the File Explorer. But if you wish the File Explorer
to open This PC showing drives list by default, then follow these steps:

1. In Windows 10, open a new File Explorer window and click the View tab from the ribbon toolbar.

2. In the View tab, find and click on Options, listed by default on the far right side of the ribbon.

3. In the Folder Options window, make sure you’re on the General tab and then find the drop-down box labeled Open File Explorer To. Click the drop-down menu and select This PC. Click OK to
save your changes and close the window. Now your File Explorer opens to Drives list by default.

Hope this helps!

 

Is there any way to disable the "contextual tabs" in File Explorer?

I would like to disable the "contextual tabs" in file explorer - the ones that turn pink/green/yellow when clicking on an item and changing to things like "Picture tools", "Video tools", "Compressed Folder Tools", "Drive Tools", etc. I find these tabs very
distracting and I don't much care for the colors - plus, I (personally) have no use for them as I have 3rd party software to handle all of my needs.

In previous versions of Windows 10 I was able to use a 3rd party tool to disable these, but with the latest insider build (1903) the tabs are back and I would really like the option to natively disable them rather than relying on 3rd party applications.

These tabs are especially annoying when using the dark theme file explorer - so much so that on my 3 monitor desktop computer, the pink/yellow tabs draw my attention from my far left monitor to my far right monitor whenever I leave an item selected in File
Explorer on a different screen. These tabs are a hindrance to my productivity because I need to take an extra second to deselect whichever item I have selected in file explorer, or to close file explorer altogether in order to get rid of them.