File explorer won't open

[Windows 11]

Today my MSI GS76 Stealth laptop with an Intel i9 processor, 32GB of memory, running Windows 11 23H2 locked up and would not do anything. I had to let the battery run down so I could reboot it. When I did restart, File Explorer would not open. I restarted again then tried a complete shutdown and reboot and it still would not open. I went into the recovery environment and used a restore point that was created earlier in the day. The restore point recovery was successful, but File Explorer still will not start. I have tried the pinned shortcut on my taskbar, the shortcut on my desktop, and the s

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