on a restart Fall Creators Update reopens apps from before

LEOPEVA64 said:

https://goo.gl/iJDbb4
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Jason Howard is Chief Officer on the Windows Insider Engineering team.

That comment is from a thread regarding a Windows Insider build. We're on The Fall Creators Update version 1709 which is different from the build mentioned in that thread

eternalrz said:

That comment is from a thread regarding a Windows Insider build. We're on The Fall Creators Update version 1709 which is different from the build mentioned in that thread

Yes, but that was a build from before FCU. It may well be that this feature was retained in all subsequent builds.

eternalrz said:

That comment is from a thread regarding a Windows Insider build. We're on The Fall Creators Update version 1709 which is different from the build mentioned in that thread

That is the new behavior of the system from that build, so it is included in all the builds that follow that one, including obviously the build 16299.15. In fact, Jen Gentleman recently confirmed in a conversation on Twitter that this was a "feature" implemented to "make that experience more mainstream", you can read that conversation here:

tomseys said:

including the main browser do not restart/auto-launch after being left open and then pc shutdown/booted up.

In my case if I use the normal button to restart or shut down my PC, Chrome always opens all the windows and tabs I had open before turning it off or restarting it, that's why I no longer use those buttons and (as I said in this comment) I turn off or restart my PCs simply doing click on the tile that I created with those commands that I mentioned in that comment.

eternalrz said:

I don't think this is a feature. It's not happening to enough people apparently and there's no documentation anywhere stating that this is a new function in version 1709.

I'd like to think that no one would be dumb enough to include this feature into Windows either. Imagine working on a document containing confidential data and have to make a presentation, then plug your computer into a projector...

Make it a habit then to shut down apps before you shut down. No embarrassing projector snafus.

Bree said:

pparks1 said:

Make it a habit then to shut down apps before you shut down. No embarrassing projector snafus.

At this point, that's really all one can do, but that's still a privacy risk. The purpose of shutting down a computer is to kill all tasks/documents and have them pop up again. If you want that, then use Hibernate. People can get really screwed over by this.

I think we have sufficient understanding now to mark this thread Solved. We may not like what we found, but that's another matter.

My thanks to all who have contributed.



The ability for an app to be restarted when Windows boots was first introduced in Vista.

Microsoft said:

An application can use Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) to save data and state information before the application exits due to an unhandled exception or when the application stops responding. The application is also restarted, if requested.

...ARR is available starting with the Windows Vista operating system.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx

Only some apps can be restarted, they have to be capable of saving their data and registering their ability to do so. Wordpad can, Notepad can't, for example.

Microsoft said:

An application can use Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) to save data and state information before the application exits due to an unhandled exception or when the application stops responding. The application is also restarted, if requested.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...(v=vs.85).aspx

It appears that for the Fall Creators Update Microsoft have chosen to boot this way when using Shut down or Restart from the Start Menu.

Workarounds have been found, Alt-F4 on the desktop still shuts down the old way. Shortcuts using the shutdown command can also be used. My preferred method is the shortcuts, putting them in a folder means I can have a toolbar on my taskbar for quick access.

doesn't sign out then restart or shutdown do the job?
i do that all the time.