If you're using Windows' tiled interface (a.k.a. Start Screen), just type "File," then click File Explorer when it appears. But as a creature of habit, I'm accustomed to clicking the taskbar File ...

To launch File Explorer, simply click the File Explorer icon on the taskbar. If File Explorer isn’t on your taskbar, here’s how you can add it: Type File Explorer in the Start Menu search bar.

The Windows 11/10 Taskbar explorer.exe shortcut icon, by default, opens the Quick Access folder. We have already seen how you can make Explorer open to This PC instead of Quick Access .

Microsoft is finally bringing tabs to File Explorer in Windows 11. The highly requested addition arrives alongside some taskbar improvements and a new suggested actions feature.

If you press the key combination Alt-Shift-Esc or right-click an empty area in the taskbar, you can launch the Task Manager ...

Today I thought it might be a good idea to give a short refresher on how to pin stuff to the taskbar -- which might avoid the need for an add-on like Piles to begin with.

File Explorer options; Open from the system tray; Note: Windows doesn’t allow Apps or shortcuts to be pinned to Taskbar, so there is no way to open it from there. 1] File Explorer options ...

When you click or tap the File Explorer icon in the Taskbar, the app will open in a special library called Quick Access (at least that is what happens on my Desktop, as you can see in Figure A).

All of the usual File Explorer settings are still here in Windows 10: Options to show or conceal hidden files, keep new folders in the same window, set the default look for opened folders, and so on.

After Microsoft brought out the first major update to Windows 11, another minor update arrived this week (October 18) that finally brings two requested features to everyone - tabs in File Explorer ...