General Pin Recent Items to Quick Access in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to pin the "Recent Items" folder to Quick Access for your account in Windows 11.

Quick access in the navigation pane of File Explorer (Win+E) allows you to quickly access and view your pinned folders, frequent Folders, Pinned files, and Recent files from one location in Quick Access.

Recent Items (aka: Recent Places) is a list of all files that you have used or opened recently. It shows more of your recently opened files than Quick access does by default.

If wanted, you can pin the "Recent Items" folder to Quick Access for easier access.




EXAMPLE: Recent Items pinned to Quick access







1 Open File Explorer (Win+E).

2 Copy and paste the shell command below into the address bar of File Explorer, and press Enter to open the Recent Items folder. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on the See more (3 dots) button on the command bar, and click/tap on Pin to Quick access. (see screenshot below)






1 Open Home in File Explorer (Win+E).

2 Right click on the pinned Recent Items folder, and click/tap on Unpin from Quick access. (see screenshot below)




That's it,
Shawn Brink