How to hide and remove Quick Access icon from File Explorer in Windows 10:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-hide-and ... indows-10/Note that one side effect of this Reg hack is that drag and drop gets disabled in the left pane but I think that's tolerable.
You can also remove frequent folders from Quick Access in Windows 10:
http://winaero.com/blog/remove-frequent ... indows-10/ or remove recent files from Quick Access:
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-remove-r ... indows-10/Disclaimer: Classic Shell is not related to or responsible for third party links. They're only provided for your convenience.