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File explorer

Cleanup

The windows file explorer comes with OneDrive and Shortcuts attached to the left-hand side of the window. There is no easy way to remove it, so you have to make changes to the registry.

Remove Onedrive Shortcut

• win-r - open the run command
• insert regedit to the opened window
• in the registry-editor navigate to Computer/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6
• Change System.isPinnedToNameSpaceTree to 0

Of course you can change it back to 1 to reenable it.

Remove Quickaccess

• win-r - open the run command
• insert regedit to the opened window
• in the registry-editor navigate to Computer/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer
• Add a new DWORD-Entry with the name HubMode and set its value to 0

Of course you can change it back to 1 or just remove the entry to reenable it.