Depending on what else is pinned to your taskbar, you might see shortcuts to several programs here, but you should always see a File Explorer shortcut. Make sure to press Enter after you paste the path into Explorer. Just copy and paste the following path into the address bar in another Explorer window: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar First, let’s open Explorer and go to that special location. Next, we need to copy that shortcut into a special location in Windows. To get started, find your folder and create a shortcut to the folder on your desktop.įor example, if I wanted to use the Pictures folder as my default folder, I would right-click on it, choose Send to and then click on Desktop (create shortcut).
I’ve tested it out and the process seems to work just fine. Since there really isn’t any official way to do this, we have to kind of hack Windows to get it to do what we want. 1 means This PC and 2 means Quick Access.įinally, let’s talk about how we can configure Explorer to open up to any folder as the default folder. On the right hand side, look for a DWORD key named Launch To.
Just navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced If you need to do this on many machines in a corporate environment, you’ll be happy to know that there is a registry entry that controls this setting also. Just pick whichever folder you prefer and you’re good to go! Now when you open Explorer, you should see it open to This PC selected instead of Quick Access.
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