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Is your Quick Access menu missing from the Windows 10 File Explorer sidebar? In this tutorial, I'll show you exactly how to restore it using three simple methods. Whether your navigation pane is hidden, your folder options are misconfigured, or your Quick Access cache is corrupted, we’ve got you covered!

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00:00Welcome back in this video I will guide you why quick access not showing in the file explorer
00:04in Windows 10. So in Windows 10 quick access tool bar is often missing because the navigation pan
00:13is often hidden or the features cache has become corrupted. So if the entire left hand sidebar is
00:19gone you need to turn it back on. So for this you need to click view tab on the top
00:25and click the
00:26navigation pan and make sure the navigation pan should be checked. You can also check the expand
00:33to the open folder to further explore the folders inside. In the second method check the quick access
00:40visibility settings. Sometimes this section is there but it is not showing any folder or files.
00:46So click on the view and go to the option and click on the change folder and search option. In
00:53the general
00:53tab under the privacy section you need to ensure that these two boxes are checked.
01:02So click clear and click apply. Okay. There may be another problem if quick access is visible but
01:11won't let you pin new folders the cache might be corrupted. So for this you need to click on the
01:17start button and type command prompt. Click on the command prompt
01:26and paste this prompt and hit enter. So you can also take the screenshot of this prompt. So after that
01:35you need to restart the file explorer or even you need to reboot your pc. Moreover you can also toggle
01:44show
01:44all folders in the navigation pan because sometimes it can worry the quick access link. So click on that
01:53and click show all folders. This simplifies the sidebar and usually bring quick access back to the
02:02very top. So this way you can easily check why quick access not showing in file explorer in windows 10.
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