Windows 11 23H2 remove Quick Access

rdwray · Mar 1, 2024

When I run this batch file "Desktop", "Documents", etc are loaded into Quick Access after I have unpinned them; how do I remove Quick Access?

Code:

@echo off
del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\*
del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\*
del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\*
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
start explorer.exe

Berton · Mar 1, 2024

If I don't want to see QA in the right pane I just hid its contents using the small arrow on the left of it. Might have better luck hiding the Home in the Navigation Pane.

Ghot · Mar 1, 2024

@rdwray

The tutorial for that is in the same place...

Windows 11 Tweaks - Leader Board.

These are tweaks I've seen asked for... many times. They are collected here for easy access. All of these and more can be found in the Eleven Forum Tutorials Classic context menus... https://www.elevenforum.com/t/disable-show-more-options-context-menu-in-windows-11.1589/ Change...

www.elevenforum.com

IanMosley · Mar 1, 2024

rdwray said:
When I run this batch file "Desktop", "Documents", etc are loaded into Quick Access after I have unpinned them; how do I remove Quick Access?

Code:

@echo off del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\* del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\* del /F /Q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\* taskkill /f /im explorer.exe start explorer.exe

There are a whole raft of tutorials (supplied our own in-house expert Brink) regarding 'Quick Access' - amoung others -

Click the 'Tutorials' tab at the top of any forum page and search ( CNTRL+F ) for 'Quick Access',

rdwray · Mar 1, 2024

I have tried all of Brinks suggestions, but they will not remove items in Quick Access or any items listed it for 23h2 3155 even though they worked in 21H2; never installed 21H2.

Ghot · Mar 1, 2024

rdwray said:
I have tried all of Brinks suggestions, but they will not remove items in Quick Access or any items listed it for 23h2 3155 even though they worked in 21H2; never installed 21H2.

If I recall, you need to right click the items in Quick Access and choose: "unpin" ?

There's also some weirdness in the way Home and Quick Access... overlap.
MS changed Quick Access to Home... or combined them, somewhere around the end of 22H2?

rdwray · Mar 1, 2024

Ghot said:
If I recall, you need to right click the items in Quick Access and choose: "unpin" ?

There's also some weirdness in the way Home and Quick Access... overlap.
MS changed Quick Access to Home... or combined them, somewhere around the end of 22H2?

See post #1.

Ghot · Mar 1, 2024

rdwray said:
See post #1.

I did.

If I were you... I'd set aside a day, and go through that Leader Board link.
Most of the stuff I put in there is to make Win 11 look and act like Win 10.

I would take one tutorial at a time... see if you want what it does. If it does... then follow that tutorial.
(I tried to group similar tutorials with each other).
Then move on to the next one. Ofc, skip the ones you already have used.

By the time you get done with the list... Win 11 will look and act a lot like Win 10, but will still be unbroken.

Some pics...

000000 Win 11 - START and Context Menus.png

And down at the very bottom of that Leader Board link are the 3rd party tweaking programs... in case you get fed up with doing everything manually.

I've managed to limit myself to only using Winaero Tweaker (gently), and TranslucentTB (for the clear Taskbar).
There's check boxes for many of the tutorials we use on Win 11.

Just check mark an item and reboot if instructed (lower left corner).

For example... this is Winaero's File Explorer section... each item (when selected), has a link to the manual instructions, as well as the check box for ease of use.

Edwin · Mar 1, 2024

'Home' is a virtual namespace of 'Quick Access', which is a virtual folder of the items pinned there!
It's a really stupid system!

Ghot · Mar 1, 2024

Edwin said:
'Home' is a virtual namespace of 'Quick Access', which is a virtual folder of the items pinned there!
It's a really stupid system!

I never liked the Libraries in general!

Said no one ever: "Oh please Microsoft, make folders for us to store things".

rdwray · Mar 1, 2024

Ghot said:
I never liked the Libraries in general!

Said no one ever: "Oh please Microsoft, make folders for us to store things".

AMEN!!!!

Edwin · Mar 1, 2024

Ghot said:
I never liked the Libraries...

Another stupid system..., 'bout as fubar as OneDrive! (Oh Geez!!! I better not open that can o worms again!!!) :zip:

Ghot · Mar 1, 2024

Happiness formula: Take Win 11 and subtract all changes made to Windows since Oct. 2012 <--- Win 8 release date.

There should be a batch file that does that.