This will cause Windows to open the Folder Options dialog box. If you look at Figure 1, you can see that at the very top of the dialog box, there is an Open File Explorer to drop down box.

If the File-Explorer-won’t-open issue continues, you can try to see what happens if you restart its process instance in the Task Manager. Here’s how to do that: ...

How to open File Explorer on Windows 10 On Windows 10, you can open File Explorer in several ways, including: Clicking the File Explorer icon in the taskbar. "Windows key + E" keyboard shortcut ...

Heck, you don’t even have to be running Windows 10. If you’ve got Windows XP, 7, or 8 you can add tabs to Windows Explorer/File Explorer right now via the Clover 3 extension.