In Windows 11 file explorer navigation pane, how do I move Quick Access pins back to the top of the list?

Anonymous
2022-11-12T22:09:14+00:00

When I updated my machine to Windows 11, the quick access items were moved beneath OneDrive in the File Explorer navigation pane. This is a big inconvenience since I always have my OneDrive folder expanded and can no longer scroll to the top to access my pinned folders. How do I get the pinned Quick Access items back to the top of the navigation pane where I can – ironically – access them quickly?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-17T04:58:39+00:00

    Agree 100% Stop mucking around with useless changes. Leave all options in place.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T11:53:44+00:00

    I find this new navigation pane in Win 11 a complete pain, and in ways very inaccessible! Why can't personal be included with other main base folders, especially as I have chosen for files to be kept on the laptop too. So all important folders can have easy drop down menus... without having folders repeated in several sections.
    The best view i've found has personal up top, but all other folder have to be places in library to have a drop down menu... which creates an extra folder in a folder... meaning you have to click drop down... which just shows you the same base folder... which you then have to click drop down again!! ...it's as if that part of windows is totally unfinished in development..

    Something a lot of people don't realise, and I didn't for weeks... items in the personal folder ARE NOT on the laptop! They are auto deleted and immediately puffed up to ONLY be there floating in the cloud! So if cloud messes up, or you are somewhere where their isn't internet access ...you have no access to those files... people's all important docs and pix! So could even lost FOREVER, especially if people lose access to their account.

    The other incredibly and massively dangerous thing of Win 11... this synch thing, it makes it seem you have to! You do... turn on old laptop... and BANG! The old laptop is as if part reformatted... even very important programs had been removed from my old laptop, many files too in some folders? this new Win 11 laptop like a virus just totally took over and changed everything. And what's most stupid about it... the old laptop is Win 10, and not even capable of having Win11... so why change and delete so much? It was more dangerous and damaging than ANY virus i've encountered. The only thing to do before activating a new laptop! Is create a new account for the old one, but no synching net data.
    In some ways I love Win 11, and in others, i'm pretty horrified at how stupid and dangerous it is.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-10-18T11:12:44+00:00

    My solution as posted earlier is to go with an alternative to File Explorer. There are several out there with a variety of display options.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-10-08T23:25:27+00:00

    I (latest WIN11) went with:

    dragging and dropping to create a Quick Access shortcut for the OneDrive - Personal folder.

    using free download Winaero Tweaker's tweak of File Explorer -> Navigation Pane - Default Items to hide the copied "OneDrive - Personal" item.

    (I always create a Windows restore point before doing anything with the Tweaker.)

    I ended up with:

    https://imgur.com/97L55Yk

    Good enough for at least those (like myself) who don't use OneDrive much at all?

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