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

Anonymous
2017-11-08T14:28:13+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Settings

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-10-28T14:32:50+00:00

    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.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-21T05:28:20+00:00

    I recently upgraded to an SSD and thought I was going crazy because my PC was taking 7-8 minutes to boot! 

    I followed this:

    Go to Settings - Accounts - Sign-in 

    Go to Privacy and turn this option off 'Use my sign info to automatically finish setting up'

    Now my boot time is 4-6 seconds.

    Why would there not be a user-friendly off switch for this?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-10-04T14:48:24+00:00

    This is probably the **** "feature" Microsoft... Please add a way to disable it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-18T14:06:34+00:00

    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?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-13T18:01:19+00:00

    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.

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