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Remove Quick Access totally

Anonymous
2024-11-10T00:45:29+00:00

Hello, I'm trying to get rid of Quick Access totally since I wish to keep our family computer's operation as simple and as straight forward as possible, and Quick Access merely hinders this for it adds yet another unnecessary elaboration that I have try to explain to my wife who greatly struggles with Windows. I've tried the various methods advised, but I can't find Quick Access Options anywhere (presumably this will allow me to disable Quick Access). If the most reliable method to do this involves going into the Registry (whatever that is, but I know it's important) please make the disabling process very specific and clear, for I'm not super experienced at computers. Thanks.

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  1. EmilyS726 225.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-11-10T02:33:26+00:00

    Hello,

    You might have read a lot of instruction online, including registry hacks, but those are relevant to Win10. When it comes to Win11, there's no way to remove it.

    The closest you can do is the following:

    Go to File explorer > Options.

    Under Privacy, uncheck all boxes.

    After that, you would still have the quick access section when you click on "Home" on the left. Here you can right click on every icon and choose unpin from quick access.

    Then for "Open File Explorer to", you can set it to "this PC" instead.

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    You can go to the View tab, under navigation pane, uncheck the boxes and just keep the "this PC". This can further make it cleaner on the left, for the navigation pane

    OR

    If you don't want the navigation pane at all, click on View > Show, uncheck the box for Navigation Pane. This way when you open your File Explorer, it goes straight to "This PC" and you don't see anything on the left, hence you wo't see the "Home" option to see Quick access.

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    These options would be the cloest I can think of to hide Quick Access and make File Explorer clean.

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  1. EmilyS726 225.4K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2024-11-10T06:15:27+00:00

    You are welcome. Glad to help.

    If all is good, feel free to mark the answer for this thread, or let me know if you need anything else from me. Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-10T06:12:52+00:00

    Thanks EmilyS726,

    That seems to have fixed it. And hopefully Quick Access will stay out of view now. That's the main thing.

    Thankyou again ...

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