Is it possible programmatically add folders to the Windows 10 Quick Access panel in the explorer window?

Question

Apparently Microsoft has (sort of) replaced the "Favorites" Windows explorer item with the Quick Access item. But I haven't been able to find a way to programmatically add folders to it (neither on Google not MSDN). Is there no way to do this yet?

Answer 1

There is a simple way to do it in powershell (at least) :

$o = new-object -com shell.application $o.Namespace('c:\My Folder').Self.InvokeVerb("pintohome") 

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Yohan Ney's answer for pinning an item is correct. To unpin an item you can do this:

$QuickAccess = New-Object -ComObject shell.application  ($QuickAccess.Namespace("shell:::{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}").Items() | where {$_.Path -eq "C:\Temp"}).InvokeVerb("unpinfromhome") 

Here's a script I wrote to make pin/unpin a little easier:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Set-QuickAccess-117e9a89