navigation pane

Understanding the Navigation Pane The navigation pane in File Explorer serves as a quick-access tool, allowing users to navigate their files and folders easily. The "Home" folder, which encompasses frequently accessed files, recent files, and pinned locations, is part of this navigation system...

Symbolic link not showing up in Navigation Pane of Windows 10. Instead of using Quick Access. How to get show up there?

Windows 11 File Explorer navigation pane allows for some folders to be pinned, but not others. It allows desktop to be pinned, but not documents folder, pictures folder. I have changed several settings many times, but it does not fix it.

I am sure at one time I could see the picture in both the navigation pane and the preview pane of windows explorer. Now all I get with jpgs, pngs etc is an icon with a pair of blue mountains on a blue background with a moon in the sky? Is there any way of getting the pictures back?

I've been at this for hours and hours to not much avail so I'm hoping there's a registry expert out there somewhere. With the help of some freeware and registry edits I have managed to remove all the original locations in the file explorer navigation pane and added and sorted my own. The file...

I have two HP laptops, both running 20H2 with the latest updates. A problem that existed before the upgrade did not go away after the upgrade like I thought it would. Both machines are networked through an Ethernet switch to the router and to a printer. I have shared folders on both laptops...

Having some troubles with sleep mode not sleeping at all. And networking on home PC's (W10 x64 Pro 1903 both computers) are not allowing access to shared folders between computers. I did some mild research on both issues. In regards to the networking issue, I got it to semi work reading from my...

I would like to know how to disable the automatic expansion of folders when my mouse hovers over them in the navigation pane. I've searched all over the folder options and have searched online, but no one has an answer. Thanks!

Link Removed Device Family resolution break points In porting your phone app to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), one of the main challenges you’ll face is coming up with reasonable visual designs for the wide variety of devices and form factors supported by UWP. The advantage of taking...

Hi here's a link if your drives are showing up twice in File Explorer. Not a big deal, but it does aggravate me. If I have posted this before, please delete this thread.;):( This link is provided by Shawn Brink! Drives in Navigation Pane - Add or Remove in Windows 10

Hello everyone, So I a fairly new to windows, coming from mac, and I think windows is brilliant. However, one of the things that I loved with macs/osx was the finder. When in finder (mac's file explorer), when you click in a folder, it will reveal its contents on the side to its right, linking...

More and more of our users are storing their files in more and more places. Whether that’s in cloud locations like OneDrive and Dropbox at home, or across network shares, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint at work, the problems introduced are the same – it gets harder to access those files...

He did go to the navigation pane and check all the empty check boxes. He's getting a tad bit tired from the Metro Menu, he does not want to install a third party software just so he can access his start menu. He checked all the boxes found a picture online since I don't have Windows 8.1 and...

I was wondering if there was a way to permanently disable the Navigation Pane Buttons down the left-hand side of my pdfs? I currently have to manually hide them by right-clicking, but this is a pain to do every time especially considering that I never use the pane.

Hi all. My first post. On 05-10-2011, robhutten posted the following answer to the question, "Font size in Outlook folder list (office 2010)" ... Of course I found the solution just minutes after posting this :-/ In Outlook: View > Layout > Navigation Pane > Font -Rob...

If I right-click on some items in the navigation pane, the explorer crahses and gives me "Explorer stopped working" message pop-up. Here are the contents of the error: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: explorer.exe Application Version: 6.1.7601.17567 Application...

Fixes an issue in which Windows Explorer stops responding if you try to expand a mapped drive in the navigation pane. This issue occurs on a computer that is Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

I have tried every conceivable way to get Explorer to let me view my empty drives under Computer. They show when there's a disk in them. They show in the reading pane, they just won't show up as empty drives in the Nav pane. I have tried deleting the upper and lower filters in the registry...

Bill Detwiler shows you how remove Libraries from the Windows Explorer navigation pane with a quick Windows 7 registry hack. More...

Greg Shultz shows you how to remove Favorites from the navigation pane in Windows 7's Windows Explorer by editing the registry. More...