Solved Change/remove entries in "Folder view" pane (left side of Explorer)

[Silmeria]

Change/remove entries in "Folder view" pane (left side of Explorer)

Hi,
is this possible?
I currently have things like Favourites, Libraries, and Homegroup (all of which I don't care for). Not sure what that folder pane is actually called, so not sure what to search for.
I just want an expanded folder tree of My Computer.

Any suggestions?
thanks

[edit:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/38933-favorites-add-remove-navigation-pane.html for Favourites apparently. still not sure about libraries or homegroup]
[another edit:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/35627-libraries-folder-add-remove-navigation-pane.html
for Libraries
ok, at least it's searchable now that I know it's called navigation pane]

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm not sure why one would do this. Right click on what ever you don't want and select delete. Be very sure you want to do this. Those things do no harm being there.

 

[Silmeria]

Well, I've tried that (though of course you had no way of knowing I had) and there's no option in the context menu to remove certain entries.

Found the post for Homegroup too (http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/39670-homegroup-add-remove-navigation-pane.html).

Sorry about this lol, someone can close this or preferably delete it.

As for justification for wanting to do so, it's mainly preference, but I don't really like the hodge podge abstractions here. Never wanted to ever use a library (I can just about imagine someone wanting to virtually merge two folders, but they obstruct navigation for me). I mount other PCs' shares as network drives directly under My Computer, so Homegroup is redundant.
All of my "favourites" are only level deep in my second hard drive, so there's no need to have a duplicate listing.

thanks for the reply though, always nice to have a response.

 

[mickey megabyte]

hmm, suppose it's a bit late to point you towards this little program.

 

[tman69]

Silmeria,
you stated "...there's no option in the context menu to remove certain entries."

aah but there is--see this link:

Remove Useless Items From Right-Click Context Menu By Hacking Registry

the info applies to Vista but the registry setting are all there in win7 (as long as you are comfortable with editing the registry).