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Windows 11 Explorer: can't order quick access items in the left pane
I can't reorder the quick access items in the right pane of the windows explorer through drag and drop. It's weird, because if i drag and drop one of them to the top, it works, but if i want to place an item in the middle of the list it doesn't work.
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Same problem still exists with Windows 11 Pro 22H2!!
- Have you tried unselecting show all folders in folder options? This moves the quick access folders in your navigation pane to a lower level. Scroll until you find them. Then try re-ordering. If this works, re-select show all folders, and quick access will go back to the top in your navigation pane, in the order you changed them to.
Did work!
juliangzr
So the weirdest hack worked, I was messing around with folder options and found that if I don't select "show all folders" (https://drive.google.com/file/d/167z2YtaFqf6xMHnCbYCDy4qwlOQQaaH5/view?usp=share_link) the view looks very wonky but at least you can reorder your quick access items.- Thanks. This worked for me.
- THANK YOU!
- VERY nice workaround! THANK YOU!!
Now, if we could only get rid of the annoying new file structure above the Quick Access list
(Desktop, Documents, Home) like it was before!
Every time I click a link and return to the Quick Access list,
I have to (remember and) do an extra click (to close Documents) to see the list again.
- Does not even allow me to move things to the top. It is the one feature that I relied on, I am very disappointed.
njerisanyu I completely agree, this would be worth some developers time! The
It worked even in windows 11 for me until last week and i used it intensively. Now it does not work more. I think it's a bug related with some update.
utentecorsoSame for me
so bad microsofot, simple but not work.. break everything, before if it worked!!!!!!
I've the 22h2 but this worked on 22h1 so bad microsofot
- Please, Microsoft, bring back Quick Access sorting
juliangzr Yes, this is very frustrating. The whole point of having a Quick Access folder list is to make folders easy to find but if you can't sort them you end up spending seconds scanning down an ever-growing list of randomly named folders.
I just upgraded to Windows 11 and it was the first thing I checked to see if it had been fixed. No joy there.
- Me too - it's been like this since the first time we got 'tabs' - when I ran that update, this same behaviour started happening for me. I can still add things into Quick Access, but I can't move them order about.
I tried MS support and did some OS install fix, but when I upgraded windows the same issue happened, which suggest that it's an OS bug - I don't understand how something this simple isn't obvious to them.
I'm sure it is obvious to them but they couldn't care less. They are more interested in adding a feature that sucks, for example, the dark "black" outlook appearance while removing the best ever dark gray background. If Microsoft had any true competitors they would definitely lose customers.
