Questions about Navigation Pane and Start Menu

[DataBoi2024]

How can I remove "Home" and removable drives from the Navigation Pane (the latter that appear duplicated, I mean, not inside "This PC") and the "Recommended" section inside the Start Menu in Windows 11 23H2?

 

[garlin]

How can I remove "Home" and removable drives from the Navigation Pane (the latter that appear duplicated, I mean, not inside "This PC")

Add or Remove Home in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11

Copy the reg file, and add it to Post-Setup (Machine) or "Before logon".

"Recommended" section inside the Start Menu in Windows 11 23H2?

There's a setting but it only works for EDU and Enterprise editions. Doesn't work on Home or Pro.

You can run Explorer Patcher, purchase the Power Start Menu app on Windows Store, or try this free hack:
Removing "Recommended" from Start Menu on Windows 11 22H2 Pro

 

[DataBoi2024]

Add or Remove Home in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11

Copy the reg file, and add it to Post-Setup (Machine) or "Before logon".


There's a setting but it only works for EDU and Enterprise editions. Doesn't work on Home or Pro.

You can run Explorer Patcher, purchase the Power Start Menu app on Windows Store, or try this free hack:
Removing "Recommended" from Start Menu on Windows 11 22H2 Pro

So, there isn't a NTLite setting to remove them? What about the removable drives?

 

[garlin]

No. Trying to keep up with the per-version UI changes would make NTLite Settings kinda messy. Some customization don't start working, or stop working until a specific Windows build.

Hiding the drives:
Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11

 

[DataBoi2024]

No. Trying to keep up with the per-version UI changes would make NTLite Settings kinda messy. Some customization don't start working, or stop working until a specific Windows build.

Hiding the drives:
Add or Remove Duplicate Drives in Navigation Pane of File Explorer in Windows 11

Then why does NTLite support Windows 11 or at least Windows 11 23H2 in the first place?

NTLite oftens crashes when closed even if not mounting any image after opening it. It does it when trying to clean something and asks me if I wannt to repeat the process or close, and regardless of what I choose, it still crashes. This has been happening in the latest versions and I'm forced to end the process in the Task Manager.

Also, what is happening with the changelog in the latest versions? There have been multiple releases in the latest days/months and then the changelog only mentions the latest released with all the changes from the latest ones instead of making separate entries for each release.

EDIT: Sometimes, after clicking a taskbar icon, it opens the icon next to it. I have to restart explorer.exe to stop this behavior but sometimes, after right-clicking the taskbar, the context menu doesn't appear and so I can't run task manager to restart explorer.exe through the taskbar, only after clicking the "Task Manager" setting in the menu which appears after pressing the CTRL, ALT and DEL keys.

 

[garlin]

Then why does NTLite support Windows 11 or at least Windows 11 23H2 in the first place?

NTLite supports multiple Windows versions, but it's not designed to be a comprehensive UI tweaker. There are other tools better suited for that role, ie. WinAero. The most common (across different Windows releases) desktop settings are generally available.

NTLite oftens crashes when closed even if not mounting any image after opening it. It does it when trying to clean something and asks me if I wnant to repeat the process or close, and regardless of what I choose, it still crashes. This has been happening in the latest versions and I'm forced to end the process in the Task Manager.

That doesn't sound normal. Try temporarily disabling your security software, if it's not Defender.

EDIT: Sometimes, after clicking a taskbar icon, it opens the icon next to it. I have to restart explorer.exe to stop this behavior but sometimes, after right-clicking the taskbar, the context menu doesn't appear and so I can't run task manager to restart explorer.exe through the taskbar, only after clicking the "Task Manager" setting in the menu which appears after pressing the CTRL, ALT and DEL keys.

Without posted a preset (without any user passwords or license keys), it's hard to know if you've removed any required desktop dependencies.

 

[DataBoi2024]

NTLite supports multiple Windows versions, but it's not designed to be a comprehensive UI tweaker. There are other tools better suited for that role, ie. WinAero. The most common (across different Windows releases) desktop settings are generally available.


That doesn't sound normal. Try temporarily disabling your security software, if it's not Defender.


Without posted a preset (without any user passwords or license keys), it's hard to know if you've removed any required desktop dependencies.

I already use WinAero and even it is missing some features.

I have no antivirus since I didn't install any and I removed Windows Defender with NTLite.

I don't have access to my PC right now so I can't attach my preset but do you happen to know some of them?

Also, I have a lot of issues which might be caused by NTLite (or not) so should I create threads to talk about them to not pollute this one?

 

[garlin]

The preset is very complete in detailing what changes you asked NTLite to make. It's better than users trying to remember everything.

This is your thread. If you ask a question that doesn't really fit here, someone will let you know in the replies. But the preset the first step in figuring out what's happening.

 

[DataBoi2024]

Here it is. Where can I get the latest NTLite log which should indicate the culprit behind the mentioned problem?

 

[garlin]

How many times have you've been banned, Afonso? There's nothing wrong with your preset.
But you're always leaving out some key details...