How to Prevent Windows 11 from Pinning Folders to Your Quick Access \ Home Section in File Explorer

You might have noticed that Windows 11 (and Windows 10) tends to add your commonly accessed folder to the Home or Quick Access section in File Explorer next to your other pinned folders. Then if you don't want them there you will need to right click each one and choose the unpin option. But if you don't want Windows to pin any folders to your Home or Quick Access section without your consent, you can easily disable this feature.

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[deanfenton]

Thank you so much! This has been driving me insane!

[bayuazra]

Straight to the point, you're a legend

[BlueTenTube]

I thought I was accidentally pinning these folders. Didn't realize it was a feature. Thanks for the explanation of how to disable this! 👍

[allan]

Finally I was able to get rid of those folders. It's frustrating that my folders have a pin icon for quick access even though the folder is not pinned. Thank you

[AdarshPatel]

Thank you! Straight forward and under 2 minutes.

[morgan]

Thank you!
I couldn't find this information anywhere, great concise video and explanation!

[jimmydean]

Thanks a bunch. This was driving me insane

[jxevpjl]

That was a problem solving video! Thank you!

[wheels]

Perfect. I hate to have to spend time on such matters and this made it easy to correct

[Andrei-qitm]

This was really annoying! Thank you for solving the matter!

[rizkidwiputraa]

Thank you so much, this video is really helpfull and straight forward giving solution that I need.

[barrhavarr]

Simple and to the point. Thank you very much!

[ProfBoggs]

Thank you. This suddenly started on my machine.

[memoxxi]

Thank you for this. Somehow windows pins everything in my personal folder and when I remove 1 from the list, a new one goes in its place but I was able to stop with the "not show recently used folder".

[txpvxlg]

Thank you so much!
I'm wondering why these are not disabled by default...

[ShoresOfHelll]

Helps keep your "questionable files" safe

[artoriasabysswalker]

who in the microsoft that think this is a good feature?
anyway, thanks for the tutorial

[somewhereontheearth]

thank you so much. saved my time a lot

[schmutz]

is anyone else just immensely annoyed that this merely has to be a video? Who designs these things and makes it that hard to configure? Give me 2012 interfaces. PEAK.

[anondimwit]

my options are already unchecked but it was randomly pinned