Windows 10: Remove Quick access from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

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Hi Shawn,

Thanks for your help.

You were correct (as usual *Smile ). I hadn't set the owner. I did that, and I've completed Step 8, which is:

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8. To Remove Quick access from Navigation PaneA) Type in a0600000, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)
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IMHO, it looks OK so far. But I have one question: If I right-click on "ShellFolder", and click "Permissions", I still only see one tab ("Security") in the Permissions dialog, but your screenshot shows multiple tabs (General, Icons, etc). I rebooted to see if that produced more tabs - but I still only have one tab.

For info: At Step 8 of the secondary tutorial to change owner, I selected my own account rather than Administrators, in order to replicate your choice of "Shawn Brink". Does that affect the number of tabs?

I don't want to proceed any further until you give me the OK. I don't think the number of tabs is important to me at this stage..

Thanks.
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No worries. Registry keys will only have the one "Security" tab in its properties. The example in the other tutorial was for a file.

 

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Hi Shawn,

I completed the tutorial, and everything works as expected.

Thanks for all your help.
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Great news. You're most welcome. *Smile

 

Tried the registry edit and i keep getting the same error in both sections (i have 64bit)

 

Hello LordNeko, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

It looks like you may have missed doing steps 4 and/or 5 for this "ShellFolder" key before trying to modify the "Attributes" value.

 

Ya I see, I enabled full control for "ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" instead of administrators.
Worked fine now and quick access has vanished; thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated.

 

Hi,

I performed this tweak today - all works well, EXCEPT it breaks drag-and-drop functionality (between the left/right panes in Windows Explorer). This is something I use every day, so I had to revert.

To confirm, I set the two registry vales back to their defaults and drag-and-drop works again.

Any idea if there's any way to remove Quick Access AND retain DND?

(I'm running Win 10 Pro 64-bit 1703)

Cheers,

Mike.

 

Hi,

yes it is possible.

regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
right side new DWORD (32 Bit) with name: HubMode
dobble click and value = 1
restart explorer

have fun *Wink

regards

 

Thank you. The tutorial has been updated for this much easier method. *Smile