Delete ‘Home’ and ‘Gallery’ in Windows 11


Old rascal Billy keeps adding a bunch of idiotic interf*c* elements like Home and Gallery, which any sane person would want to burn away with holy water. Let’s get started.

Remove Home

  1. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{f874310e-b6b7-47dc-bc84-b9e6b38f5903}
  2. Rename {f874310e-b6b7-47dc-bc84-b9e6b38f5903} to DISABLE_HOME_BUTTON={f874310e-b6b7-47dc-bc84-b9e6b38f5903} (you can revert it later if needed by renaming it back)
  3. Restart Explorer.

Remove Gallery

  1. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}
  2. If {e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c} doesn’t exist, create it (right-click → New → Key)
  3. Inside it, create a DWORD (32-bit) parameter named System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree
  4. Done! The default value of the newly created DWORD is 0, which is exactly what we need
  5. Restart Explorer.

And so… another mischief by old Billy has been defeated. Goodness triumphs, and Billy slithers away to brew up some new nastiness for the next version of Windows.


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