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This reopening of apps that were left open when you shut down was a new feature quietly introduced in 1709. Apps that are capable of registering for a restart will be reopened. IE is one such app along with MS Office and many others. Chrome will restart, as will the recent versions of Firefox. Wordpad does, Notepad doesn't. Edge along with all other modern Windows apps cannot register to be restarted.
on a restart Fall Creators Update reopens apps from before Solved - Page 9 - Windows 10 Forums