
Select the "General" tab(the default is a tab, if you have never selected other tabs), there are two options under "Privacy", one is "Show recently used files in Quick access", The other is "Show recently used folders in Quick access", click on them to uncheck(see Figure 2).ĥ. Select "Options", open the "Folder Options" window, as shown in Figure 2:Ĥ. Right click "Quick Access", the pop-up menu is shown in Figure 1:ģ. Double-click "This PC" on the desktop(or click the Explorer icon on the taskbar), open the "This PC" folder window.Ģ. Detailed steps(Remove recently accessed files windows 10)ġ.


Open the "This PC" folder → right-click "Quick Access" → Options → "General" tab → uncheck "Show recently used files in Quick access" and "Show recently used folders in Quick access" → OK. Windows 10 remove recent files from quick access(i.e. Let's see how to hide(remove) the "Frequent folders", "Recent files" or recently opened documents. Of course, if you don't want to show the recently used files, you can turn "Quick access" off to hide them, or remove them. On the other hand, if it is not a dedicated computer, it will expose my own privacy to others. After all, there are more things in each drive, and its opening times far exceed the opening times of a certain file, that is, that is, it is used much more frequently than a certain file. It is not very convenient if you want to open a certain drive. When opening "This PC", if there are more commonly used files, the drive letter (C, D, E, etc.) will be squeezed below.

Windows 10 lists "Frequent folders" and "Recent files" in the "Explorer" folder window, which is convenient for use, but also has the disadvantage of blocking the opening of folders that have not been used recently. In the Windows 10, the "Frequent folders" and all Recent files(including recently opened documents) are listed in the "Quick Access" of "Explorer" whenever you open "This PC", "Frequent folders" and "Recent files" are listed "Frequent folders" above, and "Recent files" below(see Figure 1). Starting from Windows 7, the system lists recently opened documents and folders for quick opening next time all recently opened documents are listed in "Documents" in the "Start" menu, and all recently opened folders are listed in "Recently visited locations".
