Is there a shortcut to get to top of Navigation Panel where Quick Access is?

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I am Win10/Pro, updates to Aug 11.

I think there must be an answer to this question. I’ve looked through innumerable short-cut key guides, but I don’t seem to be looking in the right place.

Here’s the situation:

When I click on ‘This PC’, here I am.

I want to do some kind of keyboard-combination to get to the top of the Navigation Pane, like this:

Is there a keyboard combination/short-cut to accomplish this?

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If the navigation pane is the active pane just hit Home.

--Joe

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joep517 wrote:

If the navigation pane is the active pane just hit Home.

Doesn’t work. I have a Dell Inspiron, BTW.

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WCHS wrote:

Doesn’t work. …

With reference to your first image, with the “.ms.ad” folder highlighted in light blue, simply click that folder once to change the highlight color to a bolder blue, then try hitting the Home key. That’s what I had to do on my machine to get it to work.

Clicking the .ms-ad folder that’s shaded in light blue moves the focus of the active window to the navigation pane from the other pane. That’s what Joe was talking about when he said active pane.

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Bob99 wrote:

simply click that folder once to change the highlight color to a bolder blue, then try hitting the Home key. That’s what I had to do on my machine to get it to work.

Yep, that did the trick.
Thanks for your explanation of why this works — i.e., it makes the Navigation Pane active.

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@WCHS –

Do you always want the “This PC” icon to open up to the Quick access area, or only once in a while?

If it’s only once in a while, then @joep517 ‘s solution is the best way to go…a single key gets you there.

If you want it to to open to Quick access every time, then there’s a setting to tweak and, since this is Windows, there’s more than one way to get there.

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Bob99 wrote:

since this is Windows, there’s more than one way to get there.

The only way I can get there at this point is just to scroll up to the top. But, there must be a keyboard combination on this Dell Inspiron.

The Fn + Home doesn’t work either.

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Two things:

1. Please see my post just above, 2583865.
2. So, is this something you only want once in a while or every time you open This PC?

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Bob99 wrote:

If you want it to to open to Quick access every time, then there’s a setting to tweak and, since this is Windows, there’s more than one way to get there.

OK, what’s the ‘open-sesame’ for this?

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I was alluding to the procedure described to a T by @PKCano, complete with screenshots, below.

Per yohr subsequent reply below it, though, you’ve already done that.

From what I see in your OP, you’re experiencing somewhat mixed results.

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On my Win 10 system I open File Explorer then click the Folder / File that is selected in the navigation pane once to highlight it, then press the ‘Page-Up’ key and it takes me to the top of the navigation plane. Pressing the ‘Home’ Key also works.

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tfw wrote:

then press the ‘Page-Up’ key and it takes me to the top of the navigation plane.

Maybe your Navigation Pane is short. Once the Navigation Pane is active, a Pg-up will take me 16 lines up the Navigation Pane from Desktop>This PC. The Pg-Up key seems to be in specific Display-Pg-up increments (16 lines?). Because my Navigation Pane is very long, it takes 5 Pg-up’s to get to the very top.

The Home key gets me to the top in one whack.

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Does this do what you want?
Control Panel\File Explorer Options – Open File Explorer to Quick Access – Apply

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PKCano wrote:

Does this do what you want?
Control Panel\File Explorer Options – Open File Explorer to Quick Access – Apply

I had already set the ‘Open File Explorer to’ field to “Quick Access”, but the Navigation Pane wouldn’t show the scroll bar already to the top where Quick Access is.

The key to getting the Home key to work is making sure the Navigation Pane is active first. With the help of @Bob99, I’ve learned how to make the Navigation Pane active.

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joep517 wrote:

If the navigation pane is the active pane just hit Home.

Home ??

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wavy wrote:

Home ??

The Home key

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Prior to reading the solution of @Bob99, I experimented with setting a shortcut for the Quick Access icon that is on my Desktop. (I right-clicked on the Quick Access icon on my Desktop, clicked on Properties in the context menu, and then set a short-cut key, which is automatically prefaced with CTL-ALT.) So, that short-cut works, too – no matter what app I am in at the time. If for some reason that does not put me at the top of the Navigation Pane at Quick Access, I can do the short-cut key again, and then I am there.

So, have two ways now for getting there — Home (after activating the Navigation Pane) or my designated short-cut key anytime.

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WCHS wrote:

I experimented with setting a shortcut for the Quick Access icon that is on my Desktop. (I right-clicked on the Quick Access icon on my Desktop, clicked on Properties in the context menu, and then set a short-cut key, which is automatically prefaced with CTL-ALT.)

How did you get the Quickaccess shortcut anyhow??

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wavy wrote:

How did you get the Quickaccess shortcut anyhow??

I put the Quick Access icon (a shortcut) on my Desktop this way:
Quick Access is listed in my Start Menu Apps list (in the leftmost column of the Start Menu). From there, I dragged it to the Desktop.

The Apps list shows up in the Start Menu because I set it up that way at Settings > Personalization > Start > Show apps list in Start menu | ON

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