How to enable Recent Folders in Windows 11 including the Save As and File Open dialog boxes!

Instructions for enabling Recent Folders functionality in Windows 11 The 3 lines of text I refer to in the video that you need to copy and paste when instructed are: shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}\ShellFolder HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}\ShellFolder Detailed Steps: 1) Open "File Explorer" on the bottom Start Bar. Click the dots ... , then Options, then View tab, then scroll down and tick "Show All Folders". Click OK 2) Right-click the Windows Start icon, then click Run, then paste the following line then click OK: shell:::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99} 3) Recent Folders will appear in File Explorer (at the bottom left). Right Click the Recent Folders and select "Pin To Quick Access" 4) Relocate the Recent Folders under Quick Access to the top or elsewhere in the list to suit your preference. (2023 Update: Windows 11 has since been updated to 2H22. One change is that Quick Access has been renamed to be Home, which doesn't allow reordering its subfolders easily. There is a way to still reorder which involves temporarily turning off "Show all folders" to do the folder reorder and then re-enable "Show all folders". But if in doubt just skip this whole step). 5) Open the Registry (regedit.exe) with Administrator privileges. You can do this by right clicking the Windows Start icon, then click Run, then type regedit then click OK and click Yes to allow this app to make changes to your device 6) At the top of the Registry Editor just below File menu is a white bar that shows your currently selected registry folder. It currently says Computer. Overwrite that with the following line by copying and pasting it and then press Enter: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}\ShellFolder 7) Right-click ShellFolder and select Permissions 8) Click Advanced 9) At the top, click Change 10) Type in ADMINISTRATORS and then click Check Names 11) Click Ok and then Ok 12) Within the "Group or user names:" section, select Administrators so that it is highlighted blue 13) Tick the box corresponding to Allow Full Control 14) Click Ok to close the Permissions box 15) On the right side of the Registry Editor, now double-click "Attributes" 16) Replace the existing Hexadecimal number of 20040000 with 30040000 and then press Ok 17) Replace the current top white bar registry folder location (like you did in step 6) by copying the following line and pasting over it, and then press Enter: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}\ShellFolder 18) Now repeat steps 7 to 16 but with this second registry key. 19) Close the Registry Editor That's it. Now Recent Folders appears in Windows 11 both in File Explorer and within all dialog boxes of software allowing you to Open and Save As in the "Recent Folders". Note, that these steps may need to be repeated from scratch when Microsoft release their annual major version update to Windows 11 (like they do with Windows 10), which seem to reset many Windows registry settings back to their defaults.

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