How To Restore Quick Access Pinned Folders in Windows 11

Microsoft "improved" windows 11 in a recent (fall 2023) update and replaced Quick Access with Home. Home displays suggested or recommended items. In the Left pane, Home has no pinned folders.

This video will show you how to turn your pinned items back on under Home the way Quick Access worked.

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[tysonbradley]

47 second video to solve a problem that has been infuriating me for months. Wow.
It is pathetic for Microsoft that it was somehow so hard to find this simple solution.

Thank you!

[beaviswealth]

Thank you. What a horrible change that was. Wish I would have found your video before I spend so much time trying to restore that. You're a life saver.

[viktoredsjo]

Amazing. Can't believe they removed it with no explanation, my pinned folders are essential to my workflow. Thanks for the easy solution!

[christophercondrat]

Thank you for this. This abomination of a folder manager is already frustrating enough to use. It's insane that the option to re-enable the Quick Access is under an option labeled as such.

Too bad it seems like Microsoft may be hell-bent on forcing this terrible change on us permanently in future updates.

[rajramjit]

Thank you so much. You deserve a valued citizen medal.

[ronheroux]

Doesn't work. When I click Options from the ellipses there is no Show Recommended Section choice. There are only 3 choices listed, not 4 as appears in your video.

[gsedan]

Your video saved my day. It proves that Ai is not not able to provide the same help as humans can . Thanks!

[AngieM-kt]

Thank you. I had a very bad day after an update. Spent hours trying to get it back. I hate updates eben more now!

[mewho]

Thank you so much. I needed to go into my settings and uncheck "show frequently used files" and then it gave me back my quick access and pinned items. A little different than your instructions, but it worked!

[iursandwch]

thank you! i thought i was going crazy when i couldn't find any of my pinned files.

[gerich]

FINALLY AFTER MONTHS OF NO QUICK ACCESS. THANK YOU

[CavemanAD]

Does not work for me. Is there a Windows 11 version number where it should work?

[DrLindaFWilliams]

THANK you! This was definitely driving me CRAZY!

[patriciamercer]

Why do they make changes like that? thanks so much - I tried a bunch of different methods before this that did NOT work

[rickgehrke]

Thanks for posting this fast and easy fix! I've been looking for a fix to this infuriating problem for months and tried a bunch of fixes people were posting that didn't work. Bravo!!!

[m.bennicolas]

"Show recommended actions" doesn't appear for me under Folder Options->General...any idea why that may be?

[BarbaraAnnTucson]

Thank you! I searched many help topics on this, but your tip actually worked!

[AmandaSexton-jbzb]

Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy, appreciate you taking the time to share this information

[MrGillard]

Thank you. Microsoft's tech pages were useless. Their "solutions" were not good in a corporate environment. This works for the few machines where the Quick Access folders were missing.

[SimplyChris]

That option isn't there for me. Any ideas how to fix this?