Solved How to remove "Favorites" from explorer

I have tryed find it from register without luck, its annoying me since i dont use it.

I agree it takes up valuable space in the tree list, no one knows how to remove this?

I haven't seen a way to remove it yet, but you can hide the navigation list completely if you never use that.



Just go to Organize-Layout-navigation pane. click on that and to get it back just click on it again. It will be like this without it.

oh no, the nav list is what makes explorer and I love explorer, one thing M$ has done excellent (appart from a few very annoying bugs in the Vista version)

premier69 said:

oh no, the nav list is what makes explorer and I love explorer, one thing M$ has done excellent (appart from a few very annoying bugs in the Vista version)

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It looks like they are trying to copy nautalas.

I think its a great improvement over vista's version.



Anyway, try this How to add items to Favorites Windows 7 Explorer folder | Web Talk see if that helps.

Solution: How to remove "Favorites" from explorer.

Hi, everyone.

Heres how to remove the "Favorites" folder in tree-view of Windows Explorer:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/38933-favorites-add-remove-navigation-pane.html

Heres proof: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/846/w7nofav.jpg

DeathAngel said:

Hi, everyone.

Heres how to remove the "Favorites" folder in tree-view of Windows Explorer:

1. Open regedit and go to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder]
2. Right click and go to "Permissions" and allow your user/userclass full control of the folder.
3. In "ShellFolder" go to 'Attributes' and change the value from 0xa9000100 > 0xa9400100.
4. Leave regedit.
5. Reboot your machine. If everything is done correctly "Favorites" should now be disabled completely when your system is rebooted.
6. Enjoy life without the annoyance that was the "Favorite" folder.

Hope this helps

- Anders

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In step 3. My attribute hex value data is a0900100

rsvr85 said:

DeathAngel said:

Hi, everyone.

Heres how to remove the "Favorites" folder in tree-view of Windows Explorer:

1. Open regedit and go to [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder]
2. Right click and go to "Permissions" and allow your user/userclass full control of the folder.
3. In "ShellFolder" go to 'Attributes' and change the value from 0xa9000100 > 0xa9400100.
4. Leave regedit.
5. Reboot your machine. If everything is done correctly "Favorites" should now be disabled completely when your system is rebooted.
6. Enjoy life without the annoyance that was the "Favorite" folder.

Hope this helps

- Anders

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In step 3. My attribute hex value data is a0900100

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Change it to a9400100 and reboot, and that should do it
Edit: Fixed the value. It is a0900100 and should be changed to a9400100. Thanks

- A -

Hey,

I did as said but don't know why, my favourites are now stuck. How can I bring them back as it was at the beginning?

This is how it looks now, when I click on it nothing is happening :

NoobKillerSM said:

Hey,

I did as said but don't know why, my favourites are now stuck. How can I bring them back as it was at the beginning?

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So go back to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder find Attributes string and restore to a0900100 (in hex) +restart

NoobKillerSM said:

Hey,

I did as said but don't know why, my favourites are now stuck. How can I bring them back as it was at the beginning?

This is how it looks now, when I click on it nothing is happening :

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Hard to believe it didn't work :sarc:

I also did the change and am finally happy !


Here, open a Command Window, run this command and post the screenshot:
(everything in one line )


reg query HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder



This will display the contents of the key. BTW, here is the output so you can check by yourself:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder
Attributes REG_DWORD 0xa9400100
PinToNameSpaceTree REG_SZ No


Perhaps you mis-read the original post from DeathAngel and made a mistake by typing a0940100 instead of 09400100. Note how subtle it is but if you break in two words it becomes evident (remember, the value is a double 32-bit word):
a094 0100 <-- original
a940 0100 <-- modified

Yeah, you can use the command "reg" to check, delete etc registry keys... type "reg /?" to see the options. Just in case you dislike the graphical interface...

To modify that value, use it like this (first it deletes and then re-adds with the new value), so here's the full hack after all:

reg delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder /v Attributes /f

reg add HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}\ShellFolder /v Attributes /t REG_DWORD /d 0xa9400100 /f

Reboot. Done.

[[ :tip: to revert to original, replace 0xa9400100 by 0xa0900100 and re-run]]

-Alex

didn't work for me

i changed the value to 0xa9400100, like stated.
the favorites folder didn't go away, so i figured i had to delete it, and then it finally wouldn't come back.
however it did, and i took a screen shot of it, with proof that the value is 0xa9400100.

help?

also, i'd be very grateful if someone could direct me to a page or thread helping me remove the pesky "searches" folder as well. the only reason it's not in my screenshot is because i had just removed it, but it's guaranteed to come back.


EDIT:
yes, it is windows 7. it's just in classic view with an hour's worth (and still making changes) of customizations to make it run similarly to winXP(classic view)/win98.