Remove Quick access from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  

I just created an account to say THANK YOU so much for this.
Worked perfectly. Both this post and the "remove favourites" post you did.
Ive been struggling for so long to get my Quick access back, now it's perfect. :)

Thank you to Shawn and to all those who particpated in this thread.

As far as I can tell the hubmode method no longer works in Win10 2004 - however, that's only on the specific machine I'm using.

Brink said:

Hello metamorphosis,

I just tested option 1 with the hubmode method on my W10 v2004 system to see if anything may have changed, but it still works for me.

Does option 2 work for you?

Haven't checked - it's not implementable in a script I believe, so it's not much use to me-
as noted may just be the particular machine I'm working on. Will try a few others and see what happens-

HubMode is still working here.




(From an Admin PowerShell console/script)

Code:

$HKLMExplorer = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer'
$HKLMExplorer | Get-Item | Set-ItemProperty -Name HubMode -Value 1

### OR ###

$WindowsCV = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion'
( Get-Item $WindowsCV ).OpenSubkey( 'Explorer', $True ).SetValue( 'HubMode' , 1 )

Here's a PowerShell function definiton you can add to the tutorial options if you want. The function, Toggle-HubMode, as you might guess, toggles the HubMode stae each time it's executed. As it modifies values found under HKLM, it must be run from an Admin PowerShell console:

Code:

Function Toggle-HubMode {
    $StateText     = @( 'visible' , 'Hidden' )
    $HKLM_Explorer = 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer'
    Set-ItemProperty $HKLM_Explorer HubMode ( $NewMode = [Int]( ! [Bool]( Get-ItemPropertyValue $HKLM_Explorer HubMode )) )
    'NewMode: {0} (Quick Access is {1} )' -f $NewMode , $StateText[$NewMode] | Write-Host
}
Toggle-HubMode

Yeah, this removes Quick Access from the left pane but adds it to my desktop.

Unable to remove from desktop. Cannot put in recycling bin either. Please show method that actually works.

YeahThatDoesntW said:

Yeah, this removes Quick Access from the left pane but adds it to my desktop.

Unable to remove from desktop. Cannot put in recycling bin either. Please show method that actually works.

Quick Access doesn't normally appear on the Desktop.

• Any idea how it got there?
• Did you make any registry mods?
• Using any 3rd-party tweaking/customization utilities?
• When did it appear?

Have several ideas but would like to know more...