Stop Windows 10 From Reopening Apps After Shutting Down or Restarting Your PC
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In this article I will explain how to stop your Windows 10 from reopening the apps that were open the moment you shut down or restarted your PC the next time you log in to your user account.
Of course, this feature may be useful for someone, but I don’t need to reopen those last apps & programs, cause if they were running at yesterday’s night, this doesn’t mean I will need them all today in the morning. Even if I really need them, it’s not a problem to reopen them again manually. If you agree with me on this, keep reading.
How to Turn Off Auto-Restarting Apps in Windows 10
Video Guide: Stop Windows 10 From Reopening Apps After Restarting or Shutting Down Your PC
You can watch the same steps in this short video:
How to Prevent File Explorer From Reopening Last Folder Windows in Windows 10
If you dislike reopening as such, you may also want to disable the good old feature that has been with us since Windows XP (or maybe even since earlier versions of Windows OS). For this purpose, do the following:
Open the File Explorer.
Click “View”.
Select “Options”:
Go to the “View” tab.
Disable the option “Restore previous folder windows at logon”.
Click “OK” to save settings:
Prevent File Explorer from re-opening folder windows at logon
Thank you. Do you consider auto-restarting last programs a useful feature or not? Tell us in the comments!
Adam Swift
Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp