Outstanding! I had gotten so far as to try changing that attribute to A0000000 but I had not tried A0600000. Thank you! As far as "why to do it"... This is just right for someone who only wants to see hard drives and network systems. No other distractions makes it a few percent easier to get right to what you want, rather than incessantly having to ignore visual noise. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; This registry file hides "Quick access" from the root namespace of File Explorer [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=dword:a0600000 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}\ShellFolder] "Attributes"=dword:a0600000 Amazingly enough, the system seems to work more deterministically (e.g., Explorer is substantially free from "failure to update" issues) if one works with just hard drives and network shares. -Noel