This will launch the Folder Options window. Once on the View tab, find and click on the Options button, which by default is located on the far right side of the File Explorer toolbar. To get there, open a File Explorer window and navigate to the View tab at the top. Here’s how to clean up and restrict Quick Access in Windows 10.The Windows 10 Quick Access settings are found in File Explorer’s Folder Options interface. While Quick Access can’t be disabled completely in Windows 10, it can be tamed to the point where it operates similarly to the File Explorer Favorites from Windows 8.1. Some users may find Quick Access in Windows 10 to be helpful, as it has the potential to keep a user’s most important information easily accessible from a single location, but those who prefer to manually manage their data will likely find Quick Access more annoying than useful. Quick Access replaced the “Favorites” view from Windows 8.1 and aims to blend user-defined favorite locations-i.e., Desktop, Downloads, and Documents-with an automatically generated list of frequently and most recently accessed files and folders.

One of the revamped features in Windows 10 is the “Quick Access” view in File Explorer.

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