Clear Unpinned Items under Quick Acsess

Anything you unpin from Quick access should disappear from there straightaway.
If it's not doing so then right-click & select Refresh [or press F5].
- Windows has exhibited Refresh problems for at least twenty years and there is no known solution.
- I reboot my computers every day just to reduce the incidence of Refresh problems.

Or have I not understood what you want?

All the best,
Denis

Open File Explorer
View menu > Options > Change folder and search options
(At top of Folder Options window) Open File Explorer to > pull down options change from Quick Access to This PC
(At bottom) Untick both boxes
Clear File Explorer history > Clear

Should clear what you want and stop non-"pinned" (re-)appearing .... BUT, no guarantees. Windows/File Explorer has been flaky for years, always has been, always will be.

OR

Right click on the offending entries > Remove from Quick Access. Has to be done one-by-one.

Howardc said:

i have several items under quick access that is not pinned that I need to remove see screen print below

Please show me this much [the Quick access label itself, all the Quick access entries, the pins]

and tell me which ones have already been unpinned.

This is the general guidance
Pin or Unpin Folder Locations for Quick access - TenForumsTutorials
and this addresses awkward cases such as yours
Reset, Clear Quick Access - TenForumsTutorials

{After further study, I decided that my original link for awkward cases unpin awkward items from Quick access - Winhelponline does not offer anything else that's useful.}


Denis

I suppose it's fixed now.

I have put in this link
Reset, Clear Quick Access - TenForumsTutorials
in my original post. I think that procedure is better than the one in that WinHelpOnline article.

All the best,
Denis

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