Question Folders in common dialog boxes

[wendiwoman]

Win10Pro64 v2004. Greetings... I've just finished the build of a new PC, and I'm bothered by the large number of useless folders that are displayed in the left pane of open and save dialog boxes. I'm attaching a link to a screenshot of what I see. I'm hoping for advice about how to eliminate the display of the needless ones.

Pic of "open" dialog box

In particular, under my user folder (My username is "Me"), there are eight junctions shown, including, for example, "Local Settings" and "PrintHood." Also showing are all of the predefined Windows folders, such as "Documents" and "Downloads", despite the fact that I have re-located them away from the root of my user folder. Finally, these same predefined folders are displaying under "This PC."

Any help on eliminating all of this useless clutter would be appreciated.

 

[thx1138v2]

A lot of those are shortcuts - the ones with the arrows in the bottom, right corner. Have you tried using the [Delete] key?

You may have to take ownership of some of the others to be able to delete them but I suspect they are owned by a system account.

I suspect that even if you are successful in deleting them they will come back on the next boot.

 

[wendiwoman]

A lot of those are shortcuts - the ones with the arrows in the bottom, right corner. Have you tried using the [Delete] key?

You may have to take ownership of some of the others to be able to delete them but I suspect they are owned by a system account.

I suspect that even if you are successful in deleting them they will come back on the next boot.

I'm aware of the eight shortcuts. Windows 10 puts them in to maintain compatibility with older versions if Windows. I don't want to delete them. I just don't want to see them. My last PC, running an older version of Windows 10, did not display them.