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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.
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.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.
- This also worked!
- 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.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.
- This ^ works for me! Thanks 🙂
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.
- 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.
- 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
- Please, Microsoft, bring back Quick Access sorting
- 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
windows 11 is not ready for prime time. It's the little things that make a difference. Such as requiring users to fiddle with reg-edit.exe file in order to change the task bar height. Ridiculous. Not to mention the highly annoying Edge Auto-launch and auto-pop up features that literally can be turned off because it's so embedded in the code it's like watching TV. The user has no choice in turn off the commercials and has to suffer through them. I want my control back over my devices and subscriptions. I really want to uninstall win11 and go back to win10. I feel like they did not put the user experience first but instead put marketing and advertising ahead of the user experience. Win 11 is NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME AND DEFINITELY NOT READY FOR CORPORATE DEPLOYMENT.
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!
