Remove Recycle Bin and Control Panel from Navigation pane

Hello
I want to remove these icons:

I tried changing the Attributes from these reg addresses for removing Recycle Bin:

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:b090010d

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:b090010d

It worked But Recycle Bin removed from Desktop too. So Is there a way to remove these icons from the Navigation pane while holding the Recycle Bin on the desktop?

I also tried the following option But its only removes Recycle Bin while Show all folder is off:
Add or Remove Recycle Bin from Navigation Pane in Windows 10

OS: 10 20H2

Ghot said:

@amymor

Add or Remove Recycle Bin from Navigation Pane in Windows 10



Add or Remove Control Panel from This PC in Windows 10

As i said i tried these options before. These articles are about adding Recycle Bin and Control Panel while Show all folder is off:


But im trying to remove Recycle Bin and Control Panel while Show all folder is on.

elbmek said:

Try Winaerotweak.

I tried it before.

elbmek said:

What I dont understands is you said in the opening post you want to remove XX and this included recycle bin, now you say you didnt want bin removing - confoosed of UK..

As i said just wanna remove these icons even when Show all folders is on.
All above tweaks are about add/removing while Show all folder is off.
Im tring to remove these while Show all is on.

amymor said:

...just wanna remove these icons even when Show all folders is on.

I don't think you can, without wiping out the default Desktop Icons as well.

Edwin said:

I don't think you can, without wiping out the default Desktop Icons as well.

So can you help me to remove Control Panel even with wiping out the default Desktop icons ? As i said i can remove Recycle Bin with changing the Attributes. But it seems not work for Control Panel, changing Attributes just removes Duplicate of control panel:

Code:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:b090010d

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{5399E694-6CE5-4D6C-8FCE-1D8870FDCBA0}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:b090010d

I also tried to delete all of these Control Panel reg addresses but it didnt make a difference.

Here's how my explorer opens (when I click on the desktop shortcut)



Indeed, I have the "Show All Folders" option off. If I turn it on, Windows will add more folders to the left pane. None of them are useful to me - in addition to another "Desktop" and as you say recycle Bin, I get the empty USB drives. So I keep this option off and have a clean look. To make it the way it looks I just used the Tutorials.

Is there any reason you want the "Show All Folders" to be on? Looks like a totally useless option to me.

Why not just pin every desired folder to Quick Access and forget the rest?

Edwin said:

Why not just pin every desired folder to Quick Access and forget the rest?

As you can see from the screenshot, I don't even have Quick Access. That's because I want explorer to show the actual folder structure and not some artificial link construction. Moreover, why limit yourself to the few "desired" folders? The way I set it up, any additional drive I might turn on (I have other hard drives that I don't use very often and so keep powered down when not in use) will just neatly sit below drive D. If I keep the default mess, I'll have to search for them in the midst of useless links.