Windows 10: Does automatic restart after updates close open programs correctly?

Say I have Firefox open, and updates come in that require a reboot, and my downtime is after 5PM, and I'm not at the computer, and Windows decides to reboot by itself. Does Windows close Firefox correctly like a person would if they were done with it, and click the X button to close it, or does it just brute force close it like a person would by Task Manager? I'm just curious because automatic reboots happened several time with programs open (including Firefox), and when I would open Firefox again, I never get a "Firefox did not close properly", or anything like that. I don't want to have to close everything open just in case of an auto reboot if Windows forces programs closed, so I'm hoping Windows is smart enough to close open programs correctly.

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How do I stop apps from opening again after I restart?

seahawks65, No, but thank you for trying. That feature only restores open folders. In the Fall Creator's Update now the apps that you had open automatically open after a restart. For example, if you had a word document open and shut down your PC, that word
document would open again after restarting.

Shenan, Thank you for help, but that seems more like a work around than an actual fix. It will stop most of my issue, but it also prevents the computer from automatically signing in after an update or restart.

I just want to turn off the feature that restarts programs. I don't want to have to individually close 10 programs before I restart. Nor do I want to have my startup time suffer because it's opening programs that I don't want open.

 

How do I stop apps from opening again after I restart?

I just recently moved from a laptop with a windows 10 upgrade. I built a new desktop, then I bought a copy of Windows 10 and it updated to the Fall Creator's Update after installing.

Now, when I restart the desktop, all of the programs I had open automatically restart too. It's as if shutting down the computer doesn't close the programs. The computer restart time has almost doubled, and I'm forced to spend time closing out a lot of programs
I don't want to be open after a fresh boot. What's worse, some of the programs don't reopen with the same permissions that they were originally opened with. I don't have the same issue on the laptop that isn't running the fall creator's update.

I just want all programs to close permanently when I shut down my desktop. Is there a patch for this bug? If not, how do i fix this?

 

Anything that is open when you lock the workstation regardless of the edition of Windows, can cause data to not be saved. Firefox and other web browsers are coded to self heal by checking for malfangled files used for user info.

I would be more worried about working on a document or say a/v file, not having a background save every so often.

 

Thanks for the reply, and I understand about not saving data, but I'm asking more about how Windows handles open programs in general. Even smaller ones like Calculator, or say I had Windows Media Player open with music playing, and the last song ended, so it's just sitting there open not doing anything? Would Windows shut them down normally, or force close them?

 

Alternate idea:

I have a note in my Windows 10 Installation Notes that is intended to disable the automatic restart feature for Windows Update. (I turn off the computer every single day, which means that the next day, all updates would have been installed; there is no hurry)
Yet I want to state that I'm not sure if this applies anymore after the big Windows Creators Update, because I saw this message in Windows Update saying something about restarting in a few hours or something, so I am not 100% positive if this applies anymore, yet you can still set that option:

"
Disable the computer from automatically restarting after installing Windows Updates
1) Search for, and open: gpedit.msc
2) Go to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
3) Enable: No auto-restart with logged on users for scheduled automatic updates installations
"

I prefer to restart/shut down the computer whenever I want to, since it is much more convenient this way. But let's hope the Big Update didn't mess this thing up.

 

Windows forcefully terminates open applications. Closing an application by clicking the close button isn't a reliable method. By default this will end the program but the program may intercept this message and do whatever it wishes. Clicking the close button may ask for confirmation, minimize the application, or even do nothing at all. Actual closing of the program may require some application specific procedure such selection of a menu item.

However, before the application is terminated Windows will send it a message that a system reboot or shutdown is imminent and it should prepare accordingly. It is given a short period of time in which to save data and any other cleanup the developer deems appropriate. In XP and prior an application could actually abort the shutdown but it was found that some applications abused this privilege so in Vista this was made considerably more difficult.

 

Thank you for the explanation.