Set File Explorer to Open to Your Preferred Folder By default, File Explorer opens to the Home folder containing Quick Access, Favorites, and Recent Items sections.

Resetting File Explorer: If you have reset the File Explorer setting, the folders you pin to the Quick Access menu might go missing or deleted.

You can tweak the Group Policy Editor settings to hide files from Office Online in Explorer's Quick Access. Find out how it is done!

New features and improvements in File Explorer arriving with Windows 11 22H2 will help users navigate through their files and folders.

On the Windows 11 2022 Update, File Explorer introduces a new "Home" page experience. The page is technically "Quick access" but has a different name, a new (home) icon, and several other changes.

File Explorer has, for some reason, start to display some weird behaviour. As you can see in the screenshot, most shortcuts under "This PC" and "Quick Access" have the correct icon but no name ...

The default homepage within File Explorer is now called Home rather than Quick access. The build also adds Microsoft Journal as a default app with the Pen menu on Windows 11.

With the introduction of Windows 11 23H2, Microsoft has modernized File Explorer on Windows 11, bringing a fresher look and feel to the system's integral file management tool.