Windows 10 re-opens all programs after shutdown / restart?

Why the **** does Microsoft think they should push tons of little stupid valueless changes to the system I payed them for without notice or giving me options to opt-in/out?

Is it just a bunch of little children product manager deciderers narrowly surfing through there own personal self interests over there or what?

I mean MY GOD! Find something to change that can actually HELP people and improve lives.  After ALL THESE THESE YEARS the way you ****-ups continue to ****-up is just astounding.

You must perversely enjoy taking the most minor thought, throwing a bunch of wasted time, effort (money), and value, into it, to only come out with your best effort being a greater nuisance than if you'd done nothing at all.

_Seriously_. It is like you don't want people to use your software.

How about Microsh*t quit FORCING THESE GD UPDATES on everybody? How dare you mess with something people have paid high dollar for. IF I WANT SOME COMPANY'S USELESS UPDATES, I WILL ASK FOR THEM!!!!

I am really starting to hate Microsoft. Actually you guys have sucked ever since you closed down your flight simulator department after sucking everyone into the hobby for 20 years and then just abandoning them.

Very lucky for you guys you have the hegemony on PC computers and that other systems are a total pain to operate and have very few compatible things people need.

You guys are just like Greyhound Bus. You're basically the only game in town so you feel you can do whatever you want to customers and they gotta keep eating the crap you feed them year after year.

You guys need to look long and hard at your company because some day another company is gonna come down the pike that leaves you all SOL. But you'll have made your billions by then, so what do you care, huh?

I usually use hibernate (a bit hidden now, in the pre-SSD era it was a godsent). But I noticed the hibernate-like shutdown on my son's PC today and didn't understand it. I thought shutdown was the same as power-off so you'll get a clean slate (he was suffering from popups in chrome windows which I thought would be gone after a shutdown + reboot). Anyhow after a reboot the hidden chrome.exe processes were still there. But, when using a Restart they disappeared. So the Restart is the good-old shutdown + power on. And that makes sense. So shutdown = (really) hibernate, and restart is what you guys are looking for. At least, it seems to be like that to me.

nope, i've never had hibernate enabled. i have to use shortcuts to shut down without saving state. stupid workaround, but it works.

I thought it had something to do with me having windows on an M.2 Drive because i had thought the drive was the reason why i could not flash my bios... because every time i tried flashing my bios (without adequate help from Asus)  my M.2 drive was no longer detected by the MOBO after each attempt, had to clear cmos every time. but anywho i got to finally flash the bios with forums like this.. had to use Brenamer .. but long story short now... I had shut down windows.. unplugged almost everything that i had to to remove the M.2 Drive and flashed the bios successfully...OCed the CPU and put everything back.. restarted and Windows opened up to how it looked before i shut down.. i kinda like the feature.. its like Xbox Instant On almost.