"Quick Launch Panel" appeared in Windows versions xp. Windows 10 also has Quick Launch, but you need to enable it first.
Click on "Taskbar" with the right mouse button. In the window that opens, move the mouse cursor over “Panels” and select “Create Toolbar...” from the drop-down list:
In the "New Toolbar" window that opens, select the desired folder and click the "Select Folder" button. After this action, a fixed link will appear on the "Taskbar" to access the folder you have selected:
To customize the created "Quick Launch Panel", you need to disable the pinning of the "Taskbar" (you may already have it disabled earlier). To do this, right-click on an empty space on the "Taskbar" and uncheck the box "Lock the taskbar".
You can now customize the appearance of the Quick Launch Bar, such as changing its name or moving it to a different location on the Taskbar. After the settings, pin the "Taskbar" again.
To remove the panel, you need to right-click on the "Taskbars", select the "Panels" section and uncheck the "Quick Launch Panel" you created.
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Windows Explorer in operating Windows system 10, has not undergone any major changes. The navigation bar in File Explorer lets you quickly navigate between different folders on your computer. For those who don't know, the navigation pane is on the left side of the window in File Explorer Windows files and displays Quick Access, OneDrive, This PC, and Network.
The Windows 10 File Explorer navigation bar quick access bar displays the Desktop, Downloads, Documents, and Pictures folders. In addition to these folders, frequently used folders are also displayed so that you can quickly access the folders you use. In addition, you can manually pin the folders you need to the quick access bar on the navigation bar.
Fast access- a great option. However, not all users find it useful and many want to remove the shortcut icon from the navigation bar.
Explorer allows you to unpin all folders from the quick access bar, it doesn't let you remove the shortcut icon. If you don't use the Quick Access feature, you can remove the Quick Access icon from the Navigation Pane by making a small registry change.
Here's how to completely remove the shortcut icon from the navigation pane of File Explorer in Windows 10.
Step 1:. You can do this by typing regedit in the search box on the taskbar, and then press the Enter key.
Step 2: In the Registry Editor window, navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Advice: Copy and paste the above path into the address bar of the registry editor, and then press the Enter key to quickly navigate to the desired key.
Step 3: On the right side, right-click an empty space, click "New" → "DWORD (32-bit) Value". Name it like HubMode.
Step 4: Finally, double click on the newly created HubMode and set its value to between 0 before 1 and restart File Explorer or PC to remove Quick Access from File Explorer navigation bar.
All! Quick access will no longer appear in the navigation bar. If you ever need to restore Quick Access, right-click on the HubMode value and select the "Delete" option.
Note that Windows 10 will continue to open a window in File Explorer that lists the files and folders you frequently access, but you can change this behavior.
Let's look at an option that allows you to open the My Computer folder instead of Quick Access.
Now, when we open it, we see the "My Computer" folder.
Possible values:
The Navigation Pane panel is very handy for accessing frequently used folders (Quick Access), your OneDrive and other drives on your PC and the Web. You can add other useful places to the navigation area, such as the shopping cart and control panel, and more.
One of the most notable innovations in the File Explorer program that appeared in the Windows 10 operating system is the Quick Access Toolbar. Quick Access (Quick Access) contains links to frequently used folders and recently used files, so the user can add "favorite" folders to this panel. If you don't want to see this panel or want to hide information about the last files you open from other users, this article is for you.
By default, the Quick Access Toolbar displays the most recently opened files and directories. Any computer user who has launched Explorer can see them. If you want to hide the list of these files from outsiders, or if you are simply uncomfortable with this innovation, below is an instruction that will help you disable frequent folders and recent files in the "Quick Access Panel" section.
In File Explorer, open the View tab and click the Options button, then select Change folder and search options.
At the bottom of the window that opens, you will see the "Privacy" section, it contains two options. One of the options disables or enables the display of recently used files, and the second enables or disables the display of frequently used folders. Check the boxes for the settings you want and click OK.
You can also clear your browsing history (log). To do this, in the same section, you need to click the "Clear" button. True, in this case, the latest files and folders will be displayed, just Windows will start tracking them from scratch.
If you want the Quick Access Panel to display frequently used folders, but want to remove a specific folder or file from this list, right-click on the desired object and select Remove from Quick access from the context menu.
In addition to displaying recent files and frequently used folders, for your convenience, you can add the folders and files you need to Quick Access, you will get a kind of "favorites" panel for Explorer.
Adding a folder is very easy, just right-click on it and select "Pin to Quick Access Toolbar" from the context menu. It's the same with files.
If you don't like the Quick Access Toolbar at all, you can turn it off completely and replace it with, for example, My Computer.
To do this, open the "View" tab and click the "Options" button, then select "Change folder and search options." In the window that opens, at the top there will be an item "Open Explorer for", in the drop-down menu, select the desired item.
Do not forget that any changes can be reverted by doing all the above instructions in reverse order.
Unlike the Favorites panel of previous versions operating system, the Quick Access Toolbar is populated automatically. Initially, only links to four folders are fixed in it: Desktop, Downloads, Documents and Images, all other folders and files are added there automatically by the system based on how often the user accesses them. And it doesn't matter how you access them: from Explorer directly or from other programs.
In order not to overload the panel with links to a huge number of folders and files, the maximum number of the first is limited to four, and the last to twenty. If desired, the user can manually pin the necessary folders to the panel on their own; restrictions will not apply to these links. You can do this directly from the context menu by selecting the "Pin to Quick Access Toolbar" item.
You can change the order of the folders in the Quick Access Toolbar in the Navigation Pane of File Explorer by simply dragging and dropping. It is easy to remove already unused elements from the panel from the same context menu using the “Remove from Quick Access Toolbar” item. It is also allowed to detach those same four system folders if you do not need links to them.
For greater user convenience, the Quick Access Panel opens by default when you start Explorer, if this state of affairs does not suit you, the This PC panel may open instead. The desired option is selected in the Folder Options panel ( File Explorer → View → Options).
