Windows 11 Explorer: can't order quick access items in the left pane

[juliangzr]

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.

[#2]

@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.

[#3]

I don't understand how something this simple isn't obvious to them.

[#4]

Please, Microsoft, bring back Quick Access sorting

[#5]

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

[#6]

@juliangzr 

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.

[#7]

Does not even allow me to move things to the top. It is the one feature that I relied on, I am very disappointed.

[#8]

@njerisanyu  I completely agree, this would be worth some developers time! The 

[#9]

@utentecorsoSame for me

[#10]

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

[#11]

@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. 

[#12]

@njerisanyu

Nice, simple get-around until someone catches up with their work at MS.  Need to mention that the manual sort stays sorted if you reset to 'Show all folders' after manually sorting, fortunately. 

[#13]

This ^ works for me! Thanks 🙂

[#14]

@njerisanyu Worked for me!

[#15]

This also worked!

[#16]

@njerisanyu  Thanks!  Great tip!  This worked for me, after many frustrating attempts to re-order quick access items!

[#17]

Did not work for me 😞

I tried your set of checked boxes from the screenshot, no change, unticked all options, no change.

I am on Windows 11 22H2 22623 (Insider beta channel). Maybe your tweak to sort quick links is gone in that version?

When I move a quick access folder, it will only show me copy or move operations (dependant on pressing ctrl or shift while dragging), not reorder.

Microsoft, come on, let us organize/sort our quick access folders.

[#18]

@SvenC 

This hack did re-order the folders in my navigation pane.  It placed the quick access folders below my One Drive Folders, and created a line separating the two.  This was a little annoying, but I have adjusted, and it is worth the visual change in order to be able to reorder the quick access folders.  

[#19]

@SKKMom Thank you for that part that I was missing. I never looked down that far in the navigation list. I tried to sort the folders shown under "Start" at the top of the navigation. Scrolling further down, I found the quick links and could sort them. Thank you! You made my day 🙂

[#20]

Thanks for letting me know this worked for you. After re-sorting my quick access folders, I went back to folder options, and re-selected "show all folders," which moved them back to the top of the navigation pane, where I prefer. Now that I know the "trick," I can re-sort again if needed.