How do I remove the Home, Gallery and One Drive from the side bar when I open a folder?

Question

Hi - I'm getting fed up of having useless folders at the top of the side menu when I (a) open a folder and (b) want to save something (particularly from Outlook) They take up real estate, and given I have pinned the folders I want to use, I don't need this waste of space... I'm particularly concerned about OneDrive, as I have multiple M/S accounts for the businesses that I contract to, and I don't want it to pick up the wrong ones. (it also seem to have duplicated one of them - both the icons in the redacted screenshot below are for the same OneDrive...)

How do I get rid of "Home" "Gallery" and "OneDrive" from the sidebar?

Answer 1

Does Emily's answer remove OneDrive completely? I want to have it gone from the list, not just the duplicate.

Note - I'm a very nervous registry editor - I am not a technical person at all, and I know there are high risks of breaking my computer completely, so was kind of hoping that Microsoft would have developed a simple, user friendly way to get rid of excess clutter.

Answer 2

Hi,

You may remove Home and Gallery by modifying the Registry. You can check these pages and follow the instructions given

Add or Remove Home

Add or Remove Gallery

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As for the duplicated OneDrive, if you want to just get rid the duplicate, you may check this thread and follow the solution given by Emily.