Quick access gives you faster navigation to your most frequent folders and files, and here's how to customize the feature on Windows 10.

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.

Pin your most-used folders for instant access. Quick Access is a helpful feature that lets you pin your frequently used folders to the left pane of the File Explorer for fast and easy access.

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!

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.

If Quick Access crashes File Explorer, run File and Folder Troubleshooter. If this does not work, here are some other fixes that will help.