Head over to your Google Drive account. See anything missing? You should. Recently, Google removed the quick access button to Google Photos from Drive. For some this isn't a problem. For those that consider themselves power users, it could add an extra step into your workflow. If that quick access to Google Photos was something you used daily, as did I, you're probably wishing to get it back.
Fret not, intrepid Google Drive users, getting that quick access to Google Photos is possible. With this back into place, you won't have to constantly be heading over to photos.google.com to work with images on your Google cloud.
Now, before you do this, I want to point out something. The access you gain to Google Photos from within Google Drive does not nearly give you the same power offered within photos.google.com. From within Google Drive, you can view, download, delete, share, tag, and rename your photos, and not much else. Within the actual Google Photos site, you can do all of that, plus use the Assistant, create albums, and do minor edits to images such as rotate, add filters, and crop.
Of course, for users like myself, the options offered in Google Photos aren't enough to pull me away from my regular editing tools (such as The GIMP). To that end, I only need quick access to my photos, hence the need to restore the link into Google Drive.
How is that done? Let me show you.
Restoring the link
Believe it or not, restoring the Google Photos link is quite easy. Open Google Drive, click on the gear icon, and click Settings (Figure A).
Figure A
From within the Settings window, check the box for Create a Google Photos folder (Figure B). Once you've taken care of that, click DONE.
Figure B
With this finished, head back to Google Drive and you should see the quick access link to Google Photos back in your left navigation (Figure C).
Figure C
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Congratulations, you no longer have to fret that Google took away the Photos link from Drive. Although not a deal breaker, for me having this link makes my work flow quite a bit easier. When you constantly go between Docs and Photos, it just makes sense to have that quick access link.
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Quick Access is one of the several new features introduced with Windows 10. Quick Access replaces the classic Favorites in the File Explorer (Windows Explorer) navigation pane and allows you quickly access recently used files and frequently used folders.
With default settings, Quick Access appears in the navigation pane of File Explorer (Windows Explorer). The Quick Access list in the navigation pane shows desktop, downloads, documents, picture, and up to four frequently used folders by default. While Quick Access is more useful than the now discontinued Favorites, the problem with it is that File Explorer opens to Quick Access by default in Windows 10.
As you might have noticed by now, when you click or tap the File Explorer icon in the taskbar or Start, Windows 10 launches Quick Access instead of This PC. The Quick Access folder displays recently used files and frequently used folders so that you can quickly open them, eliminating the need to navigate to file or folder’s actual location.
Not all users like seeing recently used files and frequently used folders upon launching the File Explorer. While it’s possible to navigate to This PC from Quick Access, users need to go through an extra step.
To take care of those users, there are options under Folder Options to stop displaying frequently used folders and recently used files in Quick Access. But if you prefer disabling Quick Access in Windows 10 so that you can directly open This PC by skipping Quick Access, you can do so as well.
In this guide, we will show how you can make This PC default in Windows 10 by disabling Quick Access as well as how to remove the Quick Access from the navigation pane.
Method 1 of 5
To disable Quick Access in Windows 10
Note that this method doesn’t completely remove the Quick Access feature. The feature will continue to appear in the navigation pane (left pane) of File Explorer. Please check the Method 2 for more information on it.
Step 1: Open Folder Options. To do so, open File Explorer, click View, click the small down arrow icon just below the Options and then click Change folder and search options to open Folder Options dialog.
Step 2: Under the General tab of Folder Options, select This PC from the drop-down box next to Open File Explorer to, and then click Apply button. That’s it! From now onwards, when you click the File Explorer icon or use Windows + E keyboard shortcut, Windows 10 will launch This PC instead of Quick Access.
Method 2 of 5
Remove Quick Access from the navigation pane
UPDATE: It’s now possible to completely remove the Quick Access from the File Explorer navigation pane. You need to edit the Registry to make it happen. Here is how to do that quickly.
Step 1: Launch the Registry Editor and navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
Step 2: On the right side, right-click on an empty spot, click New, click DWORD (32-bit) Value and then name it as HubMode.
Step 3: Finally, double-click on the HubMode entry and set its value data to 1 to remove the Quick Access from the navigation pane of File Explorer.
Method 3 of 5
Remove a pinned folder from Quick Access
Step 1: Right-click on the pinned folder and then click Unpin from Quick access option.
Method 4 of 5
To Stop Windows 10 from showing frequently used folders and files
Step 1: Open Folder Options by following the steps mentioned in Method 1.
Step 2: Under the General tab of Folder Options, uncheck options titled Show recently used files in Quick Access and Show frequently used folders in Quick Access.
Step 3: Click the Apply button. That’s all!
Method 5 of 5
Turn off Quick Access via Registry
In this method, we edit the default values of the Windows Registry. We recommend you create a manual system restore point before making changes to Registry. Note that this method doesn’t remove Quick Access from the navigation pane.
Step 1: Open Registry Editor. To open it, type Regedit in Start menu search box, and then press Enter key. Click Yes button when you see the User Account Control box to launch Registry Editor.
NOTE: One can also type Regedit in Run command box and then press Enter key to open Registry Editor.
Step 2: Navigate to the following registry key:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
Step 3: On the right side, look for the entry named LaunchTo. Double-click on it and change its value to 0 (zero) to turn off Quick Access.
Do you find the Quick Access feature useful?
Windows 10 introduced the Quick Access view to File Explorer. Whenever you open a File Explorer window, you’ll see a list of frequent folders and recently accessed files, as well as show frequent folders under the Quick Access item in the navigation pane. But you can disable all that if you don’t want to see it.
Quick Access works something like the old “Favorites” list in previous versions of Windows, letting you pin your favorite folders for easy access. That’s handy, of course, but many people don’t like that Quick Access list getting automatically populated with folders they use frequently. Many also prefer not to see a list of frequent folders and recent files every time they open File Explorer—or at the least, to have File Explorer open by default to “This PC” instead. If you fall into either of these groups, then read on as we show you how to get control of the Quick Access feature.
Make File Explorer Open to “This PC” Instead of Quick Access
Whenever you open a File Explorer window, you’ll see the Quick Access view, which provides access to frequently used folders and recently used files. If you’d prefer to go the more traditional route and view “This PC” instead, you can. “This PC” is more like the traditional My Computer view on older versions of Windows that displayed connected devices and drives. It also displays your user account’s folders—Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos.
To make File Explorer open to the “This PC” view, click the File menu, and then select “Change folder and search options.”
In the “Folder Options” window, click the “Open File Explorer to” dropdown and select “This PC” instead of “Quick access.”
And before you ask: no, Windows still doesn’t provide an easy way to have File Explorer automatically open to a folder other than Quick Access or This PC.
Stop Showing Favorite Folders or Recent Files in Quick Access
The Quick Access list takes the place of the old Favorites list. It really works the same—letting you pin favorite folders—but adds frequently-visited folders automatically to the list. You can turn that off, though, and use it just like the tried-and-true Favorites list if you want.
In File Explorer, click the File menu, and then select “Change folder and search options.”
In the “Privacy” section at the bottom, disable the “Show frequently used folders in Quick access” option.
You can now add your own favorite folders to the quick access list by dragging-and-dropping them there or by right-clicking a folder and choosing the “Pin to Quick Access” option. To remove a folder from quick access, right-click it and select the “Unpin from quick access” option.
Note that disabling showing frequently used folders removes them from both the Quick Access menu in the navigation pane and from the main Quick Access view you get when you open File Explorer or click the Quick Access folder.
While you’re on the “Folder and Search Options” window, you can also disable the “Show recently used files in Quick access” option to prevent the main Quick access view from displaying recent files.
If you disable both frequent folders and recent files from Quick Access, the main Quick Access view will only show favorite folders that you have pinned there.
The Quick Access view also appears in the traditional Save and Open windows. Tweaking any of the options we’ve covered will affect how Quick Access works in those windows, as well as in File Explorer.
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Recently, Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive that makes it easier to quickly access recently-opened or recently-edited files by displaying them at the top of the Google Drive page. However, if you want to disable this feature, you can do so easily.
Many users probably like this feature, but for some it’s just an annoyance and takes up precious screen real estate. Luckily, you can disable this feature on the Google Drive web interface, as well as in the Google Drive apps for iPhone and Android. Here’s how to do it.
On the Web Interface
Go to drive.google.com to access your Google Drive, and click on the settings gear icon up in the top-right corner of the window.
Click on “Settings”.
Find the “Quick Access” feature and uncheck the box next to “Make relevant files handy when you need them.”
Hit “Done” at the top of that pop-up window and then refresh the page. Poof!
In the iPhone App
If you’re an iPhone user, open up the Google Drive app and tap on the menu button in the top-left corner of the screen.
Select “Settings” at the bottom.
Tap on “Quick Access”.
Tap on the toggle switch next to “Enable Quick Access” to disable it.
In the Android App
On Android, open up the Google Drive app and tap on the menu button in the top-left corner.
Scroll all the way down and select “Settings”.
Tap on the toggle switch next to “Enable Quick Access” to disable it.
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