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[Solved] Cannot Remove Pinned Item from Quick Access
Reset Quick Access using the following steps:
The Quick Access “pinned” and frequent items data are kept in a file named
f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms
in the following folder:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
To reset the Quick Access to the default items, you could use Windows Explorer to find and delete the above file in the above-referenced path,
Or in the windows search box (next to the start button) type “cmd.exe” (without the quotes) and press the [enter] key to search for a Command Prompt result, and, in the results, right click on the Command Prompt and left click to select “Run as Administrator” (which opens a command prompt window), and then select and copy to your clipboard the following command shown below, and then (right click at the command line>) to paste the command in the clipboard onto the command line, and press [Enter] to run the command and delete the file:
cmd.exe /c del "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms"