{"id":1567,"date":"2016-02-03T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2019-05-12T02:55:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T02:55:59","slug":"show-only-quick-access-navigation-pane-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/show-only-quick-access-navigation-pane-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Show Only Quick Access in the Navigation Pane in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw how to remove Quick access and other Shell Folders from File Explorer in one of my previous articles<\/a>. This post something similar. In this, I’ll tell you how to remove all Pinned items in the navigation pane except Quick access.<\/p>\n

Hide or Remove All Shell Folders but Quick Access<\/h2>\n

Download<\/b> w10-hide-all-navpane.zip<\/a>, unzip and run the w10-hide-all-navpane.reg. This hides all other pinned shell folders, and shows only the Quick access. To reverse the changes, run w10-show-all-navpane.reg.<\/p>\n

Here it goes!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

More Information<\/h2>\n

Here is what the registry file does.<\/p>\n

Under this registry key:<\/p>\n

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\CLSID<\/pre>\n
The following sub keys are created:<\/p>\n
    \n
  1. {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}<\/li>\n
  2. {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}<\/li>\n
  3. {018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}<\/li>\n
  4. {F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}<\/li>\n
  5. {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    For each of the sub keys above, the following DWORD (32 bit) value is created in the right pane:<\/p>\n
    "System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree" and its value data set to dword:00000000<\/p>\n
    For Reference<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
    GUID<\/b><\/td>\nShell Item name<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    {20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}<\/td>\nThis PC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}<\/td>\nHomegroup<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    {018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}<\/td>\nOneDrive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    {F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}<\/td>\nNetwork<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}<\/td>\nLibraries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
    System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree<\/b> value determines whether the shell folder is pinned on to the navigation or not. Setting them to 1 pins the item, and 0 unpins them. This doesn’t seem to work for Homegroup though, hence the additional step below.<\/i><\/p>\n
    Additional Step – For Homegroup<\/b><\/p>\n
    The REG file also deletes the {B4FB3F98-C1EA-428d-A78A-D1F5659CBA93}<\/b> sub key under these Namespace keys:<\/p>\n
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Desktop\\NameSpace<\/pre>\n
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Desktop\\NameSpace<\/pre>\n
    This removes or unpins OneDrive, This PC, Libraries, Network and Homegroup from the navigation pane. Note that the changes are seen not only in This PC, but also in Browse dialog boxes in various applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    We saw how to remove Quick access and other Shell Folders from File Explorer in one of my previous articles. This post something similar. In this, I’ll tell you how to remove all Pinned items in the navigation pane except Quick access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[425,441],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","tag-quick-access","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1440,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/remove-quick-access-other-shell-folders-file-explorer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1567,"position":0},"title":"Remove Quick access and User Folders from File Explorer in Windows 10\/11","author":"Ramesh","date":"January 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Quick access, introduced in Windows 10, replaces the Favorites feature present in the earlier versions of Windows. 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