Unpin everything from Quick Access. Set File Explorer to open to This PC instead of Quick Access. Turn off the Thumbnails Preview in File Explorer. Clear the File Explorer’s history.

Quick Access is a location in File Explorer where you can pin the folders that you open most frequently. Apart from that, it also shows the recently opened folders.

File Explorer has, for some reason, start to display some weird behaviour. As you can see in the screenshot, most shortcuts under "This PC" and "Quick Access" have the correct icon but no name.

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The Quick Access section is on the left side of the File Explorer. It's pretty simple to pin a folder to Quick Access. Right-click on any folder you want to pin to the Quick Access section.