One of the new features in Windows 10 is the “Quick Access” view in File Explorer. Quick Access replaces the “Favorites” view from Windows 8.1 and aims to blend user-defined favorite locations — i.e., Desktop, Downloads, and Documents — with an automatically generated list of frequently and most recently accessed files and folders.Some users may find Quick Access in Windows 10 to be helpful, as it has the potential to keep a user’s most important information easily accessible from a single location, but those who prefer to manually manage their data will likely find Quick Access more annoying than useful. While Quick Access can’t be disabled completely in Windows 10, it can be tamed to the point where it operates similarly to the File Explorer Favorites from Windows 8.1. Here’s how to clean up and restrict Quick Access in Windows 10.The Windows 10 Quick Access settings are found in File Explorer’s Folder Options interface. To get there, open a File Explorer window and navigate to the View tab at the top. Once on the View tab, find and click on the Options button, which by default is located on the far right side of the File Explorer toolbar. This will launch the Folder Options window.In the Folder Options window, make sure you’re on the General tab and then locate the “Privacy” section at the bottom of the window.
These options control how Quick Access populates and displays your data.If Quick Access has cluttered its interface with files and folders that you think aren’t relevant or useful, the first step you may wish to take is clear everything from Quick Access and basically start over. I often come to these pages after doing a web search in the hopes of being able to do something I have not figured out. Common sense things like those mentioned in the comments below and just changing the sort order. By default, items added to Quick Launch are listed after any current items in the order they are added. I often wonder if Microsoft engineers actually use Windows in the way it’s set up for regular users. I know many of them use some version of Linux as well as Windows.
It’s likely most are also just as comfortable sitting in front of an Apple computer.Dear Windows Engineer, Look at the options available in the GUI in Linux, then translate those into options for Windows. Don’t disable or hide things because it might confuse grandma. Thanks, Not an Idiot.
In 7 you didn’t need to trick 7 into sorting the folders, you could drag and drop them into any order you wanted. In 10 you can do this as well, but you can’t rename them. In your use-case 10’s changes might actually not even impact you lol. For most that used Favorites extensively not being able to rename “folders” in the list is almost deal-breaking and at the least certainly a step backward. I still have yet to see an official MS word or blurb about this in any sense of the term.
Way to Remove Quick Access from Google Drive Web Go to drive.google.com from your desktop browser. Click on Settings Icon from top-right side. Then click Settings. A Settings Pop-up will come up. Look for the Quick Access section that says 'Make relevant files handy when you need them.'
Step 1: Launch Google Drive – via Chrome or another browser, doesn’t matter – and click the gear-shaped Settings icon. From the drop-down menu, select Settings. Step 2: On the Settings pop-up box, uncheck the box next to Suggestions. Tap Done to exit. Step 3: Don’t expect the Quick Access area to disappear just yet. The OneDrive icon sits just below Quick Access (we’ve already looked at how to remove Quick Access from File Explorer here) and removing it is easily done, you just need to make a quick registry.
Ive seen official Quick Access articles but not a single response to the naming issue. Handy post, @tanousjm:disqus /Jim, thank you and all works as per above, except for folders on my networked drives, which Quick Access only seems to want to allow me to have one ‘pinned’ at a time; if I try to add a second network folder to Quick Access, it simply replaces the earlier one.I have read of at least one other person with the same issue, but appreciate it if anyone can throw any light on it. As a temporary fix I’ve had to create shortcuts to the network folders I want to access and then save those within a local-folder, which I can then ‘pin’ to the Quick Access facility. However, if I have to carry on this way, I’ll also need a fix to rename ‘Quick Access’ to “Drawn-Out and Tedious Access” 😉Thanks.
Google Drive Access To Others
The Ultimate to Google DriveThe ‘Activity’ view in Drive shows you everything that has been recently edited. This would include anything that you’ve created and anything that has been shared with you. Any file you don’t want to look at can be simply removed.1. From Drive, click on the ‘More’ dropdown menu and select ‘Activity’.2. Select the file(s) you wish to remove.3. Click on ‘More’ and then choose ‘Don’t Show in Activity list’.
Disable Quick Access In Windows 10
Anything removed from the ‘Activity’ view will not be deleted, you will still be able to find it in ‘All items’.