These will be saved as shortcuts in this menu, making it easier for you to access them instantly.

The application allows you to create your personalized menu with all your favorite and most commonly used locations. Perhaps you’re constantly browsing through the same browser multiple times throughout the day, which is when an automation tool that would create shortcuts would be very handy.Īnd that’s exactly what Quick Access Popup does. This clears the Recent folders list in Quick Access without affecting the custom Pinned items.If you’re losing a lot of time browsing through your computer, there is a good solution. In the General tab of the Folder Options dialog, click the Clear button. This option applies if a “recent” folder (not a pinned item) has got stuck. Option 2: Reset the Quick Access Recent Items Then, open File Explorer and unpin or remove the item. In File Explorer, try to remove the pinned item by right-clicking and selecting Unpin from Quick access or Remove from Quick access (for frequent places that are added automatically).īut if that doesn’t work, create a folder with the same name and in the exact location where the pinned item expects the folder to be.

Option 1: Create a new folder in the old location, and then Unpin it Use one of these options to remove the stuck item in Windows 10/11 Quick Access. However, the methods in this article still apply to Windows 11. Note: Quick Access is renamed to “Home” Windows 11 22H2 onwards. If an item in Quick access is stuck, here are some methods to unpin or remove the problematic item. Quick access sometimes loses track of a target folder if it’s deleted or moved to another folder or drive, with the pinned item still pointing to the old location. Here is a classic case where Quick access failed to update the Pinned item’s target (and showed a “Location is not available” error) after the original folder was moved to a different drive.

Quick access popup