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Make Windows+E Open This PC (Computer) In Windows 10

Last Updated on June 9, 2016 by admin 2 Comments

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In Windows 10, when you click on the File Explorer icon on the taskbar or when you use Windows+E hotkey, Windows presents you the Home folder instead of This PC or Computer. The Home folder shows your favourite folders, frequently accessed folders and files.

This new Home folder feature is definitely useful to quickly access frequently accessed files and folders but most Windows users would like to see This PC or Computer after pressing Windows+E hotkey or clicking on the File Explorer icon.

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Since Windows 10 doesn’t come up with an option to disable the Home folder, we need to take the help of third-party utilities to make Windows + E hotkey open This PC or Computer.

UPDATE: Microsoft has added an easy way to make Windows + E open to This PC. Please refer to our make File Explorer open to This PC instead of Quick Access guide for detailed instructions.

In this guide, we will show how you can use AutoHotkey to access This PC or Computer using Windows + E hotkey.

Step 1: Visit this page and download AutoHotkey software. It’s completely free and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10.

Step 2: Run the downloaded setup file of AutoHotkey and then follow the simple on-screen instructions to get it installed on your Windows 10 PC.

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Step 3: Once AutoHotkey is installed, run the program.

Step 4: Now, paste the following code in Notepad and save the file as hotkey.ahk. Note that the extension must be .ahk.

#e::Run, explorer.exe /e`,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

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Step 5: Now double-click on the newly created hotkey.ahk containing the above code to open the same with AutoHotkey. That’s it!

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From now on, when you press Windows + E key or click the File Explorer icon, you get This PC or Computer.

Thanks to My1 for the code.

Filed Under: Windows 10 Tagged: Customize Explorer

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Comments

  1. Lalit Kumar says

    September 3, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    More better and easy option just 2 steps,
    ~Open Explorer and go to View -> Options -> General
    ~Change Open File Explorer to This PC

  2. Christopher Forden says

    January 21, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Thanks a lot!
    It was getting really annoying…

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