TAME QUICK ACCESS

The Quick Access menu replaces both Recent Places and your Favourites folder in File Explorer’s Navigation pane, but it can be a bit of a mess, mixing pinned icons, frequently accessed folders and recent items. Open File Explorer, switch to the ribbon’s View tab and click ‘Options’. You can disable the latter two items via the Privacy boxes, plus instruct File Explorer to open to the This PC view instead of Quick Access if you wish. You can also pin the old Recent Places shortcut to Quick Access too: press Win–R, type ‘%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\’ and press [Enter]. Right-click the Recent Items shortcut and choose ‘Pin to Quick Access’.