Choose the This PC option from the Open File Explorer to drop down menu. As helpful as it may be to get File Explorer to display This PC by default, there is one more trick that I want to show you.

If File Explorer opens very slow to open then you can make Explorer load faster in Windows 11/10 by following these tips.

Do you save everything in OneDrive? Then you can make File Explorer open to OneDrive in Windows 11 by using any one of these two methods.

In order to completely reboot the PC, make sure that you shut it down and leave it off for about 30 seconds. After that, turn it back on and check if the File Explorer won’t open issue is now fixed.

Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature in the last couple of months: a tabbed File Explorer interface. It makes moving and copying files so much simpler.

Restart the computer. Open File Explorer (Win + E) and open the Documents, Pictures, Videos, or Music folders to see the new "Start Backup" button on the "Home" tab of the ribbon.

Thus likely dramatically lowering the number of File Explorer tabs you need open at any one time down to just one.