Windows 10 Quick Access is missing 'Frequent Folders' and 'Recent Files' sections Hi, I have Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (with updates installed up to September 08) on a Dell XPS L702X. Recently the 'Frequent Folders' and 'Recent Files' options have disappeared from the default Windows 'Quick Access'. Instead, everything - all recent files & folders.

It’s easy to customise Windows explorer to your linking on a single PC, however if you want to make these changes for multiple users using multiple computers on a domain you really need to be making the change though group policy.

Windows 10 gives you the option to open new explorer windows to “This PC” instead of the quick access layout and also gives you the option to disable showing recently used files in Quick access and showing frequently used folders in Quick access, however their is no GPO to easily configure any of these settings.

However you toggle these settings with a registry entry, meaning you can still easily make changes to these settings for the users on your domain with ease, which i’m going to show you how to do:

How to open file explorer to this PC and hide recently used files / folders on Windows 10 using group policy:

You are going to want to open up Group Policy Management (gpedit.msc) for your domain and either create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) or edit an existing one. I’m going to edit the “Desktop” GPO i’ve already created, this GPO contains all my settings related to the users desktop experience:

With your GPO open navigate to Users Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry

You then want to right click and create a new Registry Item:

Download bhajan songs pk. To make explorer open to this PC you want to create the following registry item:

Action: Replace
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path: SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
Value Name: LaunchTO
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 1
Base: Decimal

To hide frequently opened folders from quick access in explorer you want to create the following registry item:

Action: Replace
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path: SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
Value Name: ShowFrequent
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0
Base: Decimal

To hide recently used files from quick access in explorer you want to create the following registry item:

Action: Replace
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path: SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
Value Name: ShowRecent
Value Type: REG_DWORD
Value Data: 0
Base: Decimal

That’s it, really simple to achive once you know how! I hope this helps somebody else out.