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Windows 7 - How to remove "Favorites" from explorer
| 01-11-2009 | #1 (permalink) |
| | How to remove "Favorites" from explorer I have tryed find it from register without luck, its annoying me since i dont use it.  |
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| 01-28-2009 | #2 (permalink) |
| | I agree it takes up valuable space in the tree list, no one knows how to remove this? |
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| 01-29-2009 | #3 (permalink) |
| | 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. Last edited by Brink; 05-15-2009 at 11:59 AM.. Reason: Removed broken image links |
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| 02-07-2009 | #4 (permalink) |
| | 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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| 05-15-2009 | #5 (permalink) |
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Quote: Originally Posted by premier69  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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| 05-15-2009 | #6 (permalink) |
| | 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. |
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| 11-06-2009 | #7 (permalink) |
| | Solution: How to remove "Favorites" from explorer. 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. (if you're unsure about how to do this, see this article: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...ows-7-explorer) 3. In "ShellFolder" go to 'Attributes' and change the value from 0xa0900100 to 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 Edit: After some testing it seems that 'a0400100' is enough to disable it. I had some random results on my system when I removed the 9, though, but from testing on other systems it seems that it works without the 9. Keep or remove, it works both ways Heres proof: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/846/w7nofav.jpg Last edited by DeathAngel; 11-08-2009 at 08:26 AM.. Reason: added link, corrected an entry.. |
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| 11-07-2009 | #8 (permalink) |
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Quote: Originally Posted by DeathAngel 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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| 11-07-2009 | #9 (permalink) |
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Quote: Originally Posted by rsvr85
Quote: Originally Posted by DeathAngel 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 Edit: Fixed the value. It is a0900100 and should be changed to a9400100. Thanks - A - Last edited by DeathAngel; 11-07-2009 at 01:00 AM.. Reason: .. |
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| 11-14-2009 | #10 (permalink) |
| | 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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