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I have pinned several drives and folders to Quick Access in Windows 11. No problems. But I have an F-drive that is 7 Tb that will not pin to quick access. The pin option is available, as you can see:

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...but it does nothing. I even tried rebooting, thinking maybe the windows explorer cache was stuck or something. No dice.

How is it done? If there's no way, can I hack the registry to get it to show up? Is there a limit to how many items I can pin to quick access? I don't think I have an excessive amount, as you can see:

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HerrimanCoder
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This answer is more of a yeet-it-all, however this might work.

There is a file in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, with name f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms. This file stores the information about the folders you've pinned. What I think is, this file somehow got corrupted on your computer, yk, since Windows 11 is still under development. When you delete this file, it is automatically remade within second — And you'll get desktop, documents, downloads, and pictures pinned by default. You can pin F:\ immediately after.

Saaransh Garg
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Open a PowerShell session and enter the following commands:

$o = new-object -com shell.application
$o.Namespace('F:\').Self.InvokeVerb("pintohome")

If this fails to work, then is there something special about the F: drive?

harrymc
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Incase you're struggling with this issue on Windows 11, I found the following link. Running it through cmd worked instantly.

Clear and Reset Quick Access Folders in Command Prompt

Copy and then paste this into Command Prompt:

del /f /s /q /a "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms"

Jordyn
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