Guys,

I have a bunch of white space around the search bar after going from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
It's super annoying, any idea how I can optimize this?

My first thought is to move the search bar from the reading pane to the ribbon, but that's not possible.

Any other ideas?
PS I found a way to remove the Favourites, but now that space is also just white and empty... any ideas to get rid of that too and optimize the real estate there?
thanks in advance.