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Libraries were introduced in Windows 7, and since then they become very useful way to organize your files. But, for some reason, the Libraries item is missing from the Navigation pane in Windows 10, by default. And if you use this feature often, you might want it back, and here are a couple of ways to do it.
To enable Libraries in Windows 10 File Explorer, follow these steps:
- Open File Explorer
- Instead of Home, go to This PC
- In the left pane, right click the empty space to open the context menu.
- Check the Libraries item
The Libraries item will now appear in the Navigation pane.
If you want your Libraries item directly in the Home folder, instead of the Navigation pane, you can do it with a couple of registry tweaks.
- Open Registry Editor
- Go to the following Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Explorer\HomeFolder\NameSpace\DelegateFolders
- After that, go to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\HomeFolder\NameSpace\DelegateFolders
- Create the same subkey, {031E4825-7B94-4dc3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}
- Close all Explorer windows and reopen it
Libraries will now appear in the Home folder of Windows 10 File Explorer. Strangely, Libraries will be under the Favorites group, but didn’t find the way to change this.
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Additionally, you can open Libraries from the Run dialog box, with entering just one command. To do that, press Win and R keys at the same time and enter the following command in the Run dialog box.
shell:Libraries
This command is a special shell command which will open the Libraries folder directly in your File Explorer.
That should be all, we don’t know why Microsoft decided to exclude Libraries from the default Navigation bar, but as you can see, you can easily bring it back. If you have some questions or comments, please express yourself in the comment section, below.
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