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<\/p>\nThe Camera Roll and Saved Pictures folders are two special folders that show up in the Pictures Library and in the user profile’s Pictures folder. Camera Roll is a folder used by the modern Camera app, and the photos and videos you create using the Camera app are saved in the Camera Roll folder. Likewise, Saved Pictures is used by the Photos app.<\/p>\n
Some users who don’t use these folders or features and are looking how to permanently delete the Camera Roll, Saved Pictures, and the Screenshots folders. No matter how many times you delete the Camera Roll and Saved Pictures folders, they simply recreate automatically after some time.<\/p>\n
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Removing the Photos or the Camera app may not be the solution you’ll prefer, and doing so can be overkill. It’s not these folders themselves or the related app that cause minor irritation to users, but the location in which they’re present. Since these folders are present under the profile’s Pictures folder, they show up in the Pictures Library as well.<\/p>\n
This post tells you how to:<\/strong><\/p>\n The easiest way to permanently remove Camera Roll and Saved Pictures from your Pictures library is to relocate them using the Locations<\/b> tab, to move them outside your profiles folder or to a different drive.<\/p>\n If you relocate it either using the Locations<\/b> tab or using a Cut and Paste operation as in Method 2, the folder will be automatically relocated and the registry values will then point to the new location. Any future file creations will be in the new location.<\/p>\n Right-click on the Camera Roll folder, click Properties and access the Location tab.<\/p>\n Replace the current location with the new destination path.<\/p>\n Click the Apply<\/b> button.<\/p>\n If the destination folder doesn’t exist, you’ll be prompted to create it. Click Yes.<\/p>\n Click Yes<\/b>. this moves all the files to the new location and clears out the old folder.<\/p>\n Similarly, relocate the Saved Pictures<\/b> folder, and the Screenshots<\/b> folder if required.<\/p>\n Open your Pictures folder Simply right-click, Camera Roll<\/b> and choose Cut<\/b><\/p>\n Go to the destination folder or drive where you want to folder to be moved to. In my case, I created a folder named My Pictures folder in the D:\\ drive where all such stuff goes in.<\/p>\n Open the destination path, right-click an empty area, and choose Paste<\/b>.<\/p>\n Here you go.<\/p>\n Similarly, relocate the Saved Pictures<\/b> folder, and the Screenshots<\/b> folder if required.<\/p>\n Screenshots<\/b> folder (under “Pictures”) is where the Print screen images (WinKey + PrintScr key) are stored by default. It’s a special folder, too.<\/i><\/p>\n You’ve now permanently removed the Camera Roll, Saved Pictures, and Screenshots folders, leaving your profile’s Pictures folder clutter-free. Since these three are special folders, Windows respects the new path setting and should write to the new path from now on. Here you can see the paths are updated in the registry as well, using any of the above methods.<\/p>\n Bonus Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0Did you know you can launch special folders using Shell:<\/b> commands? For example, to access Saved Pictures, press For Camera Roll<\/b><\/p>\n For Screenshots<\/b><\/p>\n For a complete<\/b> listing of special folder Each of these special folders is also referenced by their corresponding Libraries<\/b>, and they show up in the Libraries view.<\/p>\n To hide the Camera Roll and Saved Pictures Libraries themselves, you need to set the ThisPCPolicy<\/b> value data to “Hide” for these two Known Folder GUIDs in these locations:<\/p>\n That hides the Camera Roll and Saved Pictures Libraries!<\/p>\n The solution of hiding the libraries was discovered by KeithM<\/a> in the Microsoft forums, and I’ve created a REG file for the same. <\/i>Download w10-hide-camera-roll-saved-pictures.zip<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Removing Camera Roll and Saved Pictures Folders<\/h2>\n
Method 1: Move the folders using the Location tab<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nMethod 2: Simple “Cut” and “Paste” Relocates the Special folders<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nSaved Pictures GUID: {3B193882-D3AD-4EAB-965A-69829D1FB59F}\r\n\r\nCamera Roll GUID: {AB5FB87B-7CE2-4F83-915D-550846C9537B}\r\n\r\nScreenshots GUID: {B7BEDE81-DF94-4682-A7D8-57A52620B86F}<\/pre>\nWin<\/code> + R<\/code> to launch Run dialog and type in:<\/p>\nshell:savedpictures<\/pre>\n
shell:camera roll<\/pre>\n
shell:screenshots<\/pre>\n
Shell:<\/code><\/b> commands, check out the article Shell Commands to Access the Special Folders<\/a>.<\/p>\nRemoving the Camera Roll and Saved Pictures Libraries<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FolderDescriptions\\{2B20DF75-1EDA-4039-8097-38798227D5B7}\\PropertyBag<\/pre>\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WOW6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FolderDescriptions\\{2B20DF75-1EDA-4039-8097-38798227D5B7}\\PropertyBag<\/pre>\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FolderDescriptions\\{E25B5812-BE88-4bd9-94B0-29233477B6C3}\\PropertyBag<\/pre>\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\WOW6432Node\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\FolderDescriptions\\{E25B5812-BE88-4bd9-94B0-29233477B6C3}\\PropertyBag<\/pre>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/w10\/w10-camera-roll-10.png\")
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