How to Move Devices and Drives to the Top in “This PC” on Windows 10
73How to Move Devices and Drives to the Top in “This PC” on Windows 10.
Windows 10’s “This PC” view doesn’t just show hard drives, removable storage devices, and network locations. Unlike the traditional “My Computer” list, it also contains several folders — but you can hide them and make This PC look more like Windows 7’s Computer view.
This PC is one of the two locations that File Explorer can open to by default. The other location is Quick Access. This PC features three types of items; folders, Devices and drives, and Network locations. Folders appear at the top and lists library folders like Downloads and Pictures and Desktop, Devices and drives appears next and features all your internal and external drives, as well as phones, and SD cards. The last is Network locations and it will show media devices, network drives, and network folders if any are available.
If you do not like the Folders appearing at the top, and would like to give preference to Devices and drives which you access more often, there is a workaround.
You can hide the Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders — all of them, or just some of them. This requires a quick registry modification. They’ll only be hidden from the This PC view in File Explorer. You’ll still have easy access to them via the Quick Access view.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung.