How to remove Creative Cloud Files shortcut from Windows Explorer (left Navigation Pane) after April 2021 update?

The "Creative Cloud Files" shortcut was a pain to get rid of in the past, but after a recent update in spring 2021, the damn shortcut is back, and none of the old tricks work anymore.

Has anybody found a method to remove it?

1 Answer

According to Adobe, set the following REGKEY to 1 will unpin Creative Cloud Files:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Adobe\CreativeCloud]
"unPinCCF"=dword:00000001

However it doesn't seem to work. This is what works for me on Windows 10 and Windows 11:

1. Open Registry Editor
2. Navigate Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID
3. Search "Creative Cloud Files", and locate a key that contain a string Creative Cloud Files and a DWORD System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree
4. Set the value of System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree to 0
5. Restart Windows Explorer for the change to take effect