{"id":16460,"date":"2019-03-25T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16460"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:38:26","slug":"force-windows-10-file-explorer-to-open-to-this-pc-instead-of-quick-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/force-windows-10-file-explorer-to-open-to-this-pc-instead-of-quick-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Force Windows 10 File Explorer to Open to This PC Instead of Quick Access\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Force Windows 10 File Explorer to Open to This PC Instead of Quick Access\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

When you click \u201cFile Explorer\u201d in Windows 10, the view you see by default is Quick Access. You don\u2019t see your hard drive displayed in Quick Access, Some of us, like me for instance, prefer to see a more traditional view that shows my hard drives and other drives in addition to the Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, etc. folders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to show you how to change File Explorer so it opens up with This PC (formerly known as Computer and My Computer). And it\u2019s very simple. It\u2019s so simple in fact, you\u2019ll be able to do it faster than it took you to read this tip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready?<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #1:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Open File Explorer. You can do this a bunch of ways \u2013 here are three:<\/span><\/p>\n

Click start & click \u201cThis PC\u201d<\/span>
\nClick the folder icon on your taskbar<\/span>
\nPress the Windows Key + E<\/span><\/p>\n

Note that will open to \u201cQuick access\u201d (highlighted in yellow below).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #2:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s change this so it opens up to This PC (My Computer\/Computer).<\/span><\/p>\n

Click View (at the top \u2013 see red box)<\/span>
\nClick Options (see red arrow)<\/span>
\nSelect Change folder and search options \u2013 highlighted in yellow below:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span>
\nStep #3:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In Folder Options, next to \u201cOpen File Explorer to: \u201d use the down arrow to select This PC. Then click Apply\/OK.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/span><\/p>\n

Behold! It\u2019s This PC (My Computer\/Computer) almost the way used to be. And certainly a lot more useful if you want to see your drive(s) displayed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Windows<\/span><\/p>\n

Now you know how to make File Explorer open to This PC in Windows 10. If you ever want to go back to opening File Explorer to Quick Access,\u00a0 select Quick Access instead of This PC in step 3 above.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Force Windows 10 File Explorer to Open to This PC Instead of Quick Access\u00a0 When you click \u201cFile Explorer\u201d in Windows 10, the view you see by default is Quick Access. You don\u2019t see your hard drive displayed in Quick Access, Some of us, like me for instance, prefer to see a more traditional view that shows my\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1799,2343,2792,1700,787],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16469,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions\/16469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}