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When I try to rename one of these Quick access shortcuts,...

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, the original folder name are renamed also.

What I'm looking for is to rename the shortcuts without renaming the original folders names.

OS: Windows 10

This question isn't a duplicate of Windows 10: Rename pinned items in Windows Explorer's Quick Access. This question is asking about how not to rename the original folder with the same name of its Quick Access shortcut on being renamed, while the other question is asking about the existence of the rename feature itself — not its relation with the original folder name.

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Windows does not have the ability to rename Quick Access pinned items, so one needs to rather use the workaround of pinning a symbolic link to the folder.

The procedure is described in the article Rename Quick Access pinned folders in Windows 10 in detail and with screenshots. Here is the bare method :

  1. Unpin from Quick Access the folders you wish to rename.

  2. Create a new empty folder, for example c:\Users\your_name\Pinned Folders.

  3. Open a new Command Prompt (CMD) window and type the following command per each folder to pin:
    mklink /J "%userprofile%\Pinned Folders\New Name" "c:\path\folder to pin"
    (%userprofile% is same as c:\Users\your_name)

  4. Right click the items in %userprofile%\Pinned Folders and pin them to Quick Access.

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