Request help in personalising Win 11 Explorer ... .

Greetings:
I recently began to run Win 11, build 22621.1778, and I am looking to personalise file Explorer.
The questions I have:
1) How to totally remove Home from Explorer, please?
2) How to get the base folders (Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music and Pictures back right above "This PC", please?

Let me ask is easier, how do I get Win 10 Explorer in Win 11, please?

Reason:
Severe Asperger's and severe ADHD.
This altered Explorer is driving me a bit cuckoo clock at 400 hours plus, if you get what I mean.
Flew around the nest several times, but I find no place to land... .

If anyone could help me regain my sanity, at least partially ... I would be grateful.

Cuckoo.
I mean, Xogroroth.


PS:
After a TON of misery with W11, I am reinstalling the system, might be a few before I can read/reply.
Xogrokoo.
DARN, Cucroroth.
Bah, I give up. O_O

From File Explorer, click Options > Open File Explorer to:. Then select Home > Apply.

Xogroroth said:

1) How to totally remove Home from Explorer, please?
2) How to get the base folders (Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music and Pictures back right above "This PC", please?

3) Let me ask is easier, how do I get Win 10 Explorer in Win 11, please?

4) After a TON of misery with W11, I am reinstalling the system

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1) Add or Remove Home in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

2) Add or Remove Folders under This PC in File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

3) You can get close to the Windows 10 Explorer by Installing StartAllBack or Explorer Patcher.

4) Are you reinstalling Windows 11 because of some interface issues? If so, that was probably unnecessary. To save time and pain in the future, you can always check with users here first before reinstalling.

Download and install Winaero Tweaker. In the left pane of Winaero Tweaker, expand the File Explorer category. Near the bottom of this category you'll find two options that let you modify what gets shown in the Navigation Pane of File Explorer:

• Navigation Pane - Custom Items
• Navigation Pane - Default Items

This should get you fairly close to what you are looking for.

You may also try Explorer Patcher: Release 22621.1555.55.1 · valinet/ExplorerPatcher You can configure File Explorer, Taskbar, Start Menu and other stuff to look exactly like Windows 10 or 8 or 7.

LesFerch said:

1) Add or Remove Home in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

2) Add or Remove Folders under This PC in File Explorer in Windows 11 Tutorial

3) You can get close to the Windows 10 Explorer by Installing StartAllBack or Explorer Patcher.

4) Are you reinstalling Windows 11 because of some interface issues? If so, that was probably unnecessary. To save time and pain in the future, you can always check with users here first before reinstalling.

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Thank you.

No, tonnes upon tonnes of issues:
Sound, Defender, Partitions changing, and many others (see my other posts).

I will again reinstall, revert to W10Pro.
Even tried W11Ent (now installed) and W11Ult afore.
Issues persist, answers not to be found anywhere, no matter what I install of W11 versions.

That there's no professional Windows support, for a firm this big and rich, is just not acceptable.
Before one could mail them, now all email addresses are killed off.
"Phone us".
How, I am deaf?
That would be an interesting call, no?
Hence I depended on email contact.

Bit by bit, support is getting nerfed more and more, taken from us.
Because they just do not care about their users.

hdmi said:

Download and install Winaero Tweaker. In the left pane of Winaero Tweaker, expand the File Explorer category. Near the bottom of this category you'll find two options that let you modify what gets shown in the Navigation Pane of File Explorer:

• Navigation Pane - Custom Items
• Navigation Pane - Default Items

This should get you fairly close to what you are looking for.

Click to expand...

Thank you.

spapakons said:

You may also try Explorer Patcher: Release 22621.1555.55.1 · valinet/ExplorerPatcher You can configure File Explorer, Taskbar, Start Menu and other stuff to look exactly like Windows 10 or 8 or 7.

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Thank you.

You may also try Open-Shell. (Personally, I, use it alongside ExplorerPatcher.) Open-Shell lets you replace the Start Menu (giving you 3 different styles to choose between, each one of which is customizable─the Windows 7 style is what I use). But it also lets you do a few other useful tweaks, like, e.g., change the font color of the Windows 10 Taskbar (after you have replaced the Windows 11 Taskbar with the Windows 10 Taskbar in ExplorerPatcher or if you use Windows 10).

Through a separate feature, Classic Explorer, Open-Shell also lets you do things like change the behavior of the Navigation Pane in File Explorer. (I have changed the line spacing of the items in my Navigation Pane to -1, and, I have disabled automatic fading of the expand/collapse chevron signs.)

Another good example of a tweak tool I like to use for a few things is Ultimate Windows Tweaker 5 for Windows 11. I know that a lot of people choose to avoid tweaks and/or tweak programs altogether or almost, but I also know that a lot of Windows annoyances are very much real (also to a lot of people). Knowing and learning how to fix or work around those annoyances is compulsory IMO. The key driving force in this regard (also IMO) comes from the fact that Microsoft gives you enough time to learn to use helpful tweaks on Windows 11 before Windows 10 will no longer be supported by Microsoft. That is, people largely owe it to theirself if they keep refusing to learn those new tweaks until that last moment comes. When dealing with Microsoft, you have to focus your energy on the importance of duct tape.

Most incompatibilities are usually due to drivers. Don't rely entirely on Windows Update to install the drivers. Visit manufacturer Support site and download any Windows 10 64-bit or 8 or 7 64-bit drivers. Install the chipset (aka platform) drivers first (if any) and then the graphics drivers and the rest. You will be surprised with the difference in stability and performance.