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How do I restore quick access to File Explorer in Windows 11?
At work, my team and I extensively use Quick Access in File Explorer in Windows 10. Our agency is about to upgrade to Windows 11, which I use at home. My File Explorer at home (Windows 11) allows me to right-click folders and select Pin to Quick Access, but the quick access is missing from the Navigation Pane and none of the "fixes" I've found on the Internet have helped. I can live with this at home (very unhappily and resentfully), but at work, because of our heavy reliance on the Quick Access in File Explorer, losing Quick Access will be catastrophic. How do I restore Quick Access to File Explorer?
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Open File Explorer and click the three-dot icon at the top-right of the window. Select "Options" and change the "Open File Explorer To" option to "Home." Click "OK" and relaunch File Explorer
(Dripping with sarcasm) Of course that's how Microsoft decided to modify "Quick Nav", noting that the functionality isn't mentioned in a single piece of the solution. Thanks a lot Nobel, that saved me hours of searching around endlessly in the settings to try and find this.
My only question to Microsoft is...why? (Let's take this perfectly working piece of our software from Win10 and change it for Win11; and not just change it, but change it so drastically that all the users will be unable to figure it out on their own)
