USB Drive Appearing Twice In Navigation Pane Of Windows 10 File Explorer

The Windows 10’s File Explorer is more or less similar to the one in previous versions of Windows. The Quick Access is probably the major new feature of Windows 10’s File Explorer. Here is a guide on USB Drive Appearing Twice In Navigation Pane Of Windows 10 File Explorer.

Fix USB drive appearing twice in Windows 10 File Explorer

Important: We recommend you create a manual system restore point before editing the Registry.

Step 1: In the Start menu or taskbar search box, type Regedit, and then press Enter key. Click Yes button when you see the User Account Control dialog to open Registry Editor.

Step 2: In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key:

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

Step 3: Under DelegateFolder, there should be a key called {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83}.

Step 4: Right-click on {F5FB2C77-0E2F-4A16-A381-3E560C68BC83} key and then click Delete button to delete the key.

Step 5: When you see the following confirmation dialog, click Yes button to delete the key. Deleting the key should remove the duplicate USB drive icon from the navigation pane.

If the USB drive/device is still appearing twice, sign out and sign in, or restart Windows Explorer once to get rid of the duplicate USB drive entry in File Explorer.