How To Change Default Folder of Windows Explorer

It’s a common feature for Windows to open the Libraries views on default, but most of the times, we may be requiring some other folder to open in default view and here’s how you do it :
1. Open any folder and right click on the folder icon in the task bar. Then again right click over the “Windows Explorer” and select “properties“. or
Search “Windows Explorer” in start menu and right click on it and select “properties“.

2.In the Properties tab, select the “shortcut” tab. Here you can see the Default location of the Explorer in the “Target” Field. We just need to change that field for our required purpose.

The new locations which needs to be entered are GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifier’s) which can be obtained for any folder through the Registry Directory. It was these codes which we have used in our earlier part to enable hidden God-Modes.Click Here To View How to Enable God Mode.

This is how you obtain them :
1. Open “Run” from start menu and enter “Regedit” to enter the registry editor. Go to Edit >> Find and type in a example key like the one below :
{E96F5460-09CE-4f46-88B1-F4B6B4A8E252}
This key refers to the Windows Media Player. but you can dig around for more pre-set default folder locations
2. Copy the key of the desired folder and enter the target field with a vale like this :
%windir%\explorer.exe ::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}
The example shown above opens the “Network” folder. Just change the Key value and keep the first part ” %windir%\explorer.exe ::” as it is.
3. You can also open Specific folders without the need of keys by replacing the “FOLDER” name with your desired folder location like this :
%windir%\explorer.exe C:\FOLDER
Just change the location “C:\FOLDER” to any desired location and save your settings.