File Explorer, please help

Darko · Apr 13, 2025

On my new Lenovo laptop, with Windows 11, everything is, thanks to you, as I would like and as it should be. There is one little thing that really bothers me, so please help. Namely, in File Explorer, when it opens, a black border appears around Quick access, which disappears when I click somewhere, and appears again when I open FE again (this is in Croatian). I have tried everything that Google and AI advise, but it does not help.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Please help.

Edwin · Apr 13, 2025

Darko said:
Does anyone know how to get rid of this?

Windows does that all over the place! Highlights the first variable...,
I don't know how to disable it! Sorry!

gunrunnerjohn · Apr 13, 2025

You can turn off Quick Access entirely.

Remove, Disable, Clear, Turn off, Unpin, Stop Quick Access Windows 11 - MiniTool

What’s quick access in Win1? How to remove, disable, clear, turn off, unpin, or stop quick access? How to add, enable, turn on, pin, or start quick access?

www.minitool.com

dacrone · Apr 13, 2025

if it really bothers you that much, you can use a shortcut scripted via powershell or autohotkey that will launch to whatever path you desire and immediately press the ESC key, thus removing focus from the outlined

dacrone · Apr 13, 2025

here. had a free min. try this one. launches to Home and sends ESC once opened. source code:

Code:

Run, explorer shell:::{F874310E-B6B7-47DC-BC84-B9E6B38F5903}
Sleep, 100
WinWaitActive, Home
Send, {ESC}

compiled exe is attached in zip

Darko · Monday at 5:38 AM

Nothing helped, but thank you for your effort.

mck · Wednesday at 1:30 PM

Darko said:
On my new Lenovo laptop, with Windows 11, everything is, thanks to you, as I would like and as it should be. There is one little thing that really bothers me, so please help. Namely, in File Explorer, when it opens, a black border appears around Quick access, which disappears when I click somewhere, and appears again when I open FE again (this is in Croatian). I have tried everything that Google and AI advise, but it does not help.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this? Please help.

Try changing the File Explorer view from "Home" to "This PC" and see if you like it. (It's my preferred view.)

Open File Explorer
Click on the 3 dots.
.... Click "Options"
.... At the top, change from "Home" to "This PC".
.... Click OK.

hdmi · Wednesday at 7:19 PM

dacrone said:
here. had a free min. try this one. launches to Home and sends ESC once opened. source code:

Code:

Run, explorer shell:::{F874310E-B6B7-47DC-BC84-B9E6B38F5903} Sleep, 100 WinWaitActive, Home Send, {ESC}

compiled exe is attached in zip

Tab followed by Shift+Tab appears to work.

EDIT: Well at least if a short delay is added between Tab and Shift+Tab, it does.

Darko · Thursday at 6:53 AM

Unfortunately, I didn't understand a word. Especially how and what I should do with the code, where to write it, what about Shift etc. Still, thanks for your effort

hdmi · 2025-04-20T00:47:59-0400

In AutoHotKey v2.0:

Code:

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0
#SingleInstance
h := WinExist("A")
Run "::{F874310E-B6B7-47DC-BC84-B9E6B38F5903}"
WinWaitNotActive
Loop 40 {
  Sleep 100
  h := WinExist("A")
} Until h>0
Sleep 100
h := ControlGetFocus("A")
c := ControlGetClassNN(h)
if (c=="Microsoft.UI.Content.DesktopChildSiteBridge1") {
  Sleep 2500
  ControlFocus "Microsoft.UI.Content.DesktopChildSiteBridge2"
}

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