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Running Windows 10 Pro, v1790, build 16299.19
After a recent Windows update my computer now re-opens all programs I had open prior to restarting.
I've seen some registry hacks and workarounds on the internet but I just want the option to turn this off natively within Windows without workarounds.
How do I do this?
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I can't believe there's still not a fix to this. And for reference I did actually make a post about it on feedback hub 4 months ago, that got no attention, unsurprisingly, because it seems most people are completely unaware of this. Pretty telling too how staff disappeared from this thread midway through. How hard can it be to add a clear option to turn this "feature" off?
Still waiting for MS to remove this garbage, I mean who on earth would think this would be a good idea?
There are so many problems that people have and can easily been seen. For example I shut down my PC and booted it up this morning and it opened up youtube and started playing my music I was listing to early in the morning waking everyone up.
People on slow computers now have to wait even long to boot up because it's trying to launch unwanted programs you were finished with the previous day.
People on laptops with 5400rpm drives now runs even slower.
People without SSD's.
People with not enough ram and hogs it all at the start of windows booting.
The list goes on...
It really makes me want to switch to something like a mac... AND I HATE MACS.
I have all updates applied including the 2018-03 rollup, and this fix DOES NOT work. It only delays the restart of programs until after I have logged in.
This is a new feature, though there is a known bug in this feature and Microsoft say they are working in it
For the moment, to stop this happening:
Go to Settings - Accounts - Sign-in
Go to Privacy and turn this option off 'Use my sign info to automatically finish setting up'
This does not fix the issue or change the behavior.
Several people on this thread have said that this fix does not work. However, it does work if you have done an update that was released in January. There's more detail of that in another thread on this site. I have just checked it, and it works for me.
However, there's a remaining issue that you can't do it on an enterprise-managed machine. And, to state the obvious, the setting to turn it on and off needs a less opaque name - no-one looking for a way to stop this behaviour would think of changing that setting unless they'd ploughed through the support sites and found a thread like this.
I can't wait for the lawsuit:
Guy watching porn on family PC, is interrupted and shuts down PC. Forgets (or perhaps DOESN'T KNOW!) that Win10 OS will reopen his previous session on next boot.
7am next morning he's asleep in bed, his 7 year old kid fires up the PC; kid is shown a re-run of his fathers porn fetish from the night before.
Father sues Microshaft!
Microtwats release update to OS...
MS settle lawsuit out of court, undisclosed yet perceived massive settlement payment.
MS have a staff shakeup.
