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Windows 1. 0 Tip] Remove Icons from Navigation Pane of This PCIf you are using Windows 1. OS in your computer, you might have noticed 2 new icons in Windows Explorer (also known as "This PC" or My Computer) Navigation Pane: Apart from these 2 new icons, some older icons such as Homegroup and Network are still present in Navigation Pane of This PC. Also when you attach a removable device such as USB Flash drive, external hard disk, etc, a separate icon of the removable drive is shown in navigation pane along with the same icon present under This PC section. So the removable drive icon is shown twice in navigation pane as shown in following screenshot: Many people may not like so many icons in Navigation Pane and they may want to get rid of this icon clutter from This PC in Windows 1. Today in this tutorial, we'll tell you simple ways to remove these unwanted extra icons from Windows 1. This PC's Navigation Pane. You'll be able to remove all of these unwanted icons or a particular icon with the help of this tutorial.
We'll take help of our favorite Registry Editor to do these tasks. We have divided the tutorial in 5 parts: PART 1: Remove One.Drive Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCPART 2: Remove Quick Access Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCPART 3: Remove Homegroup Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCPART 4: Remove Network Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCPART 5: Remove Removable Drive Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCSo without wasting time lets start the tutorial: NOTE: Ready- made Registry script is given for download at the end of this tutorial.If you are not familiar with Registry editing, you can use the Registry script to remove the icons automatically.PART 1: Remove One.Drive Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCRemoving One.
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Drive icon is the most easiest task. You'll not need to take ownership of any Registry key and you'll not need to restart or log off. The changes will be instant. Press WIN+R keys together to open RUN dialog box. You can also open it from WIN+X menu. Now type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter.
It'll open Registry Editor. Now go to following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0. D5. C6. 6- 4. 53. B5. 3- 2. 24. DE2.
ED1. FE6}3. In right- side pane, change value of System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree DWORD to 0. That's it. It'll immediately remove One. Drive icon from This PC Navigation Pane. If you want to restore One.
Drive icon, change the value of System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree DWORD to 1 again. NOTE: If you are using 6. Windows 1. 0, you may notice that One. Drive icon is still present in "Browse" dialog box such as Save, Save as or Open in some 3rd party 3. To remove One. Drive icon from there, you'll need to perform the same steps in following key as well: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow.
Node\CLSID\{0. 18. D5. C6. 6- 4. 53. B5. 3- 2. 24. DE2.
ED1. FE6}Just go to above mentioned key and in right- side pane, change value of System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree DWORD to 0 to remove One.
Drive icon. NOTE: If you want to completely disable One. Drive functionality in Windows 1. Tip] Disable One. Drive in Windows 1. PART 2: Remove Quick Access Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCRemoving Quick Access icon is a little bit hard compared to removing One.
Drive icon. Due to some unknown reasons, changing "System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree" DWORD value to 0 doesn't remove Quick Access icon from Navigation Pane even after restarting the computer. So we'll need to change its attributes to remove its icon from Navigation Pane: NOTE: Some readers have reported issues related to Explorer (such as broken drag- n- drop functionality) after applying this Registry tweak to remove "Quick Access" icon from This PC Navigation Pane. Open Registry Editor and go to following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6.
Shell. Folder. 2. Now take ownership of Shell. Folder key with the help of this guide. In right- side pane, change value of Attributes DWORD to a. Restart, log off or restart Explorer as given here to take effect and it'll remove Quick Access icon from This PC Navigation Pane. If you want to restore Quick Access icon, change the value of Attributes DWORD to a.
NOTE: If you are using 6. Windows 1. 0, you may notice that Quick Access icon is still present in "Browse" dialog box such as Save, Save as or Open in some 3rd party 3. To remove Quick Access icon from there, you'll need to perform the same steps in following key as well: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow.
Node\CLSID\{6. 79f. Shell. Folder. Just go to above mentioned key, take ownership of the key and in right- side pane, change value of Attributes DWORD to a.
Quick Access icon. PART 3: Remove Homegroup Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCHomegroup icon can be removed using any of following 3 methods: By using "System.
Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree" DWORD method. By using "Attributes" DWORD method. By disabling Homegroup services[METHOD A] By Using "System.
Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree" DWORD: 1. Open Registry Editor and go to following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B4. FB3. F9. 8- C1. EA- 4. A7. 8A- D1. F5. 65.
CBA9. 3}2. Now take ownership of {B4. FB3. F9. 8- C1. EA- 4.
A7. 8A- D1. F5. 65. CBA9. 3} key with the help of this guide. In right- side pane, create a new DWORD System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree and leave its value to 0. That's it. It'll immediately remove Homegroup icon from This PC Navigation Pane. If you want to restore Homegroup icon, change the value of System.
Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree DWORD to 1 again.
NOTE: If you are using 6. Windows 1. 0, you may notice that Homegroup icon is still present in "Browse" dialog box such as Save, Save as or Open in some 3rd party 3.
To remove Homegroup icon from there, you'll need to perform the same steps in following key as well: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow. Node\CLSID\{B4. FB3. F9. 8- C1. EA- 4. A7. 8A- D1. F5. 65. CBA9. 3}Just go to above mentioned key, take ownership of the key and in right- side pane, create a new DWORD System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree and leave its value to 0 to remove Homegroup icon.[METHOD B] By Using "Attributes" DWORD: This method has already been posted at this site long time back for Windows 7 operating system but the method still works in Windows 1.
OS. You can visit following link to learn more about this method: How to Remove Homegroup Icon from Windows Explorer Navigation Pane?[METHOD C] By Disabling Homegroup Services: You can also remove Homegroup icon from Navigation Pane by disabling Homegroup services using Service Manager. Check out following tutorial to learn more about this method: How to Disable Homegroup Feature in Windows 7 and Later? Although the tutorial was written for Windows 7 but it'll also work fine for Windows 1.
OS. PART 4: Remove Network Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCSimilar to Homegroup icon, Network icon can also be removed using similar methods: By using "System. Is. Pinned. To. Name.
Space. Tree" DWORD method. By using "Attributes" DWORD method[METHOD A] By Using "System. Is. Pinned. To. Name.
Space. Tree" DWORD: 1. Open Registry Editor and go to following key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F0. C1. A0. D- BE2. 1- 4. B0- 7. 36. 7FC9. 6EF3. C}2. Now take ownership of {F0. C1. A0. D- BE2. 1- 4. B0- 7. 36. 7FC9. 6EF3.
C} key with the help of this guide. In right- side pane, create a new DWORD System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree and leave its value to 0. That's it. It'll immediately remove Network icon from This PC Navigation Pane. If you want to restore Network icon, change the value of System. Is. Pinned. To. Name.
Space. Tree DWORD to 1 again. NOTE: If you are using 6. Windows 1. 0, you may notice that Network icon is still present in "Browse" dialog box such as Save, Save as or Open in some 3rd party 3. To remove Network icon from there, you'll need to perform the same steps in following key as well: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow. Node\CLSID\{F0. 2C1. A0. D- BE2. 1- 4. B0- 7. 36. 7FC9. 6EF3.
C}Just go to above mentioned key, take ownership of the key and in right- side pane, create a new DWORD System. Is. Pinned. To. Name. Space. Tree and leave its value to 0 to remove Network icon.[METHOD B] By Using "Attributes" DWORD: This method has also been posted long time back for Windows 7 operating system but the method still works fine in Windows 1. OS. You can visit following tutorial to learn more about this method: How to Remove Network Icon from Windows Explorer Navigation Pane? PART 5: Remove Removable Drive Icon from Navigation Pane of This PCRemoving removable drive icon is also very easy task.