Quick Access not showing in navigation pane since Windows 11 update

Anonymous
2022-10-07T05:34:35+00:00

I updated to the latest version of Windows 11 yesterday. When I opened File Explorer, Quick access and recent files/folders were showing to the right of the window, but the Quick Access folder option was missing from the navigation panel on the left. So if I click away from this Window I've lost Quick Access. How do I re-enable Quick Access to the left part of the navigation pane?

Please look at the screenshot before replying. Quick Access is enabled in view mode options and can be seen, but is missing from the left side of the navigation pane.

Thanks for any help.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-05T13:45:19+00:00

    But restore defaults from the ... menu just brought them back.

    They do not appear in Home as various MS blog suggest they do (files that are favourites do) and they appear after Home, gallery (new in preview), my personal OneDrive, my 5 business OneDrives, desktop, downloads which is bit annoying (I like pinned at the top).

    I also notice that my desktop appears pined (with pin icon) and I can't remove it using unpin (the menu item appears but the pin never goes).

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-05T13:32:49+00:00

    No such menu for me. I notice that i get a different right click menu on home (very limited). but no sign of show all folders (preview build)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-05T13:23:27+00:00

    But it doesn't work.

    Add file to favourites works but folders added using pin to quick access do nothing. All my previous favourites disappeared.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-12-01T15:11:59+00:00

    Thank you. After about 3 hours of searching form my lost quick access, this finally did it for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-01T09:08:13+00:00

    Why? This was a feature I used all of the time. Considering the billions of other features, this was actually practical. In stead of removing it, why couldn't they simply disable the feature by default and still allow people to enable it.

    I'm confounded with some of the changes with Win 11. Bad design is when you remove features or make changes for the sake of making changes, or making changes based on the intuition of a small team, or worse, the opinion of one person. Did they take a poll on this one?

    It flies in the face of logic. It makes moving around to different folders quick and efficient. Now what? What's the alternative? I think Microsoft needs to provide users with an alternative when it removes something. I'd love to know what's my alternative. How much time to have to waste now trying figure that out. I actually have work to do. I don't want to spend my days and nights, relearning things that were already well designed.

    Not happy. This is a dumb decision.

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