Windows 10: Windows 10 Quick Access Disappears on Startup

Hello,

I upgraded to Windows 10 several months ago and the Quick Access menu was working normally. A few months back however, all of the pinned items disappeared and I cannot pin anything to the quick access menu either. I've gone through all the posts and different solutions I can find and all I have been able to do is temporarily fix the problem by deleting the "5f7b5f1e01b83767.automaticDestinations-ms" file in the C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations folder.

Deleting this file does bring back the quick access folders that I had pinned before this problem started to happen, but every time I restart my computer, the quick access menu is again empty and nothing can be pinned to it.

I have googled and tried all of the different solutions that I can find so any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

:)

 

I can only pin one folder to Quick Access, if I try to pin another the first disappears.

Original Title: Quick Access is not quick access

What is the point of Quick Access when it doesn't keep the files you want quick access to pinned as you would like? I can only pin one folder, if I try to pin another the first disappears. It doesn't make sense. Is there a way to pull Favorites from Windows
7 into Windows 10? It was actually useful. With Quick Access I have to drill down in files all day long.

 

File Explorer/Quick Access

I recently started having a problem with File Explorer and Quick Access. When I start my computer, all works fine but then gradually the files as listed in File Explorer and Quick Access start to disappear and soon there are none present. I need to
restart and again they are there but also again they start to disappear. Has anyone else had this problem and any suggestion to correct? Thanks/

Moved from: Windows 10 / Ease of access / PC

 

Hello and welcome *Smile

One thing worth checking - are the two boxes ticked in the Privacy settings of Folder Options? Select Options on the View ribbon of File Explorer.

 

They were originally clicked but are not currently selected. That was one of the many "solutions" along the way that I had tried. Do I want them to be clicked?

Thanks!

 

Yes, they need to be checked as shown in my post for the Quick Access to function normally.

 

Well, I went back in and checked them and tried restarting to see if that was the cause of the problem. All of the quick access folder disappeared again after restarting though....

Any other thoughts?

 

Did the Privacy check marks disappear too in the Folder Options?

 

Nope, they stayed checked.

 

OK, then I suggest that you work your way through the following tutorial and see if anything there makes a difference for you.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...-turn-off.html

 

Thanks for the link! Nothing there seemed to help though. *Sad I even went through and turned quick access on and off using the regedit method. No luck...

I did look again and it is actually deleting the "f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms" file in C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations that resets the quick access and brings it back (until restart of course). Don't know if that changed anything or not, but thought I would clarify.

 

Here's another link you can try, maybe you tried one of these earlier and it has locked you into your situation:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

 

Well I went through the process of turning it off and back on through regedit (changed the value data to a0600000, restarted, then changed the value data back to a0100000 and pinned a few things to the quick access and restarted again) , but the Quick Access menu still disappears after a restart...

Any other tricks?

 

Can you confirm that the changes you made from the tutorial work at first and behave as you want? From what you are saying it seems that the process of restarting undoes the changes.

 

Sure. When I changed the value to a0600000 and restarted, the quick access option was not available in the file explorer (see below).







I went back in and changed the value back to a0100000 and restarted again and the quick access option is back (see below).







Then I pinned a few items to the quick access (see below).







I then restarted again to see if I could replicate the problem about the quick access disappearing when restarting and this is what I have (see below).