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
    2022-12-13T18:37:00+00:00

    Noiman,

    I understand your issue perfectly, so much so that I've reinstalled a clean version of Win10 (dumping Win 11) for several reasons, File Explorer "upgrades" being one reason. The apparent inability for this XPS 13 not to be able to understand Win 11, or vice versa. In the overall scheme of things, it's probably more Interesting how the readers don't seem to get what you're talking about.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-13T20:42:07+00:00

    Ah, I'm sorry, I should have read this thread more closely.

    I was having that different problem. A clean-install which I was going to do anyway seems to have fixed it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-14T09:26:19+00:00

    Win 11 offers much better Workspaces support -- the feature I use extensively.
    But other than that, I feel that Win 10 is a more professional environment. This btw. includes the Start menu which is actually fully customizable (!) and not just a pale imitation of the inferior macOS counterpart (yes, Microsoft, you had something better than what macOS did have but you killed it!).

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-23T10:17:48+00:00

    This! A thousand times this. Sincerely I hope that someone at someone at Microsoft is reading this because the change is SO counter-productive it is unbelievable.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-29T16:17:48+00:00

    Hi Noiman,

    I'm not an expert but I have found out recently that the Quick Access has a "dynamic" feature.

    You can just disable it by selecting the Home folder, clicking on the 3 dots in the panel and choose Folder Option. At this point, you can disable the "Show frequently used folders" in the Privacy section. You can even clear the File explorer history to clean up the Quick Access a bit.

    See picture below. I hope it helps

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