How to open 'This PC' using CMD or Powershell?
Just like you can run explorer.exe C:\
to open up the C:
(or any other drive or folder path), you can also use a file:
URI to open paths in Explorer as well. If you just specify the file:
protocol without a directory (or specify file:\\
), it will open This PC
:
explorer file:
explorer file:\\
Note that you can also change the default Explorer location from Quick Access
to This PC
as well from Folder Options
:
My experience is that, the following should work:
From cmd:
Start "" "%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe" /Select,"This PC"
From powershell:
Start "$Env:SystemRoot\explorer.exe" "/Select,'This PC'"