'Home' in File Explorer glitching out?

[tired-it]

Sometime in June, just after Patch Tuesday, I made an updated Windows 11 25H2 image in NTLite. One of the settings I had picked was to remove Gallery and Home from the file explorer. After installing the image, I noticed that while the File Explorer was indeed lacking those two options, sometimes the Home path would pop up and disappear shortly after. It would usually happen shortly after opening the File Explorer and other times when the window was being refreshed with new data.

For my current July image, I decided against toggling the options to remove Gallery and Home, but I am curious if anyone else has encountered the same issue.

 

[scaramonga]

I made a post about this ages ago, but never got a reply

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Thread 'Nav Pane - Home'

Jun 13, 2026

Removing - Navigation Pane - 'Home' does not work on LTSC 24 (8655). It remains an irritant, but all the rest remove fine, Galleries, Libraries etc.

I use this to remove afterwards, and that gets rid of it:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace

Delete {f874310e-b6b7-47dc-bc84-b9e6b38f5903}

(All Users)

Any reason as to why?

• scaramonga
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• Forum: Questions and Reports

Something funny going on with the 'Home' thing, always glitches out. Nothing else has a problem?

 

[Anonymous Internet User]

I am curious if anyone else has encountered the same issue.

Yes, I noticed something like that, not sure if it's the same, but it only started happening after the July update, I'm sure. I never saw this before.

Before, I'd sometimes, see the Home icon in the Navigation Pane but only in the Open/Save dialogs, but never on the Desktop, but now it glitches in and out randomly on the desktop. Looks like using the Open/Save dialog is still one of the things that triggers this, so it might be related.

I made a post about this ages ago, but never got a reply

I think it's different from what you've described. I don't see Home in the Navigation Pane, it's gone (except sometimes in the Open/Save dialogs as described above), so removing it works for me, it just now, it randomly appears and disappears on the Desktop.

Something funny going on with the 'Home' Windows thing, always glitches out.

 

[MacVap]

This behavior reminds me exactly of Quick Access on LTSC 2019. I think I solved it with this:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}]
"System.HideOnDesktop"=dword:1
"System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:0

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:a0600000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}]
"System.HideOnDesktop"=dword:1
"System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:0

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:a0600000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
"{679F85CB-0220-4080-B29B-5540CC05AAB6}"=dword:1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{679F85CB-0220-4080-B29B-5540CC05AAB6}"=dword:1

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\ClassicStartMenu]
"{679F85CB-0220-4080-B29B-5540CC05AAB6}"=dword:1

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{679F85CB-0220-4080-B29B-5540CC05AAB6}"=dword:1

The usual/partial fixes were not enough. I think it kept re-appearing because of the x86 part (WOW6432Node).

Of course, you should replace the CLSID (679f85cb-0220-4080-b29b-5540cc05aab6 with f874310e-b6b7-47dc-bc84-b9e6b38f5903).

I don't have the install any more to check, but maybe later I deleted all instances of that CLSID anywhere in the registry.

GL