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To get there, open a File Explorer window and navigate to the View tab at the top. Here’s how to clean up and restrict Quick Access in Windows 10.The Windows 10 Quick Access settings are found in File Explorer’s Folder Options interface.

While Quick Access can’t be disabled completely in Windows 10, it can be tamed to the point where it operates similarly to the File Explorer Favorites from Windows 8.1. Some users may find Quick Access in Windows 10 to be helpful, as it has the potential to keep a user’s most important information easily accessible from a single location, but those who prefer to manually manage their data will likely find Quick Access more annoying than useful. Quick Access replaced the “Favorites” view from Windows 8.1 and aims to blend user-defined favorite locations-i.e., Desktop, Downloads, and Documents-with an automatically generated list of frequently and most recently accessed files and folders. To do this, click Change, click Advanced, click the Find Now button, and from "search results" select "Administrators", then click OK, OK again, then Apply, hit OK, and hit OK one last time to close the ShellFolder Permissions box.One of the revamped features in Windows 10 is the “Quick Access” view in File Explorer.

At the top of Advanced Security Settings for ShellFolder, change the ownership of the folder to "Administrators".

Now you need to change the permissions of ShellFolder, right-click ShellFolder, select Permissions, then click the Advanced button.

Navigate to the following registry path: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID.

Open the Windows Registry as an administrator by launching the Run command using the Windows + R keyboard shortcut, typing "regedit", and hitting Enter.

In this step we will give the local administrator accounts full control over ShellFolder, which will allow us to modify the registry keys located in this particular shell folder. Keep in mind that removing quick access doesn't clear the File Explorer history, as such this is a good time to disable Show recently used files in Quick access and Show frequently used folders in Quick access, and click the Clear button to erase the File Explorer history.