Windows 10: Turn On Restore previous folder windows at logon in Windows 10

How to: Turn On Restore previous folder windows at logon in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off 'Restore previous folder windows at logon' in Windows 10


When you sign off, restart, or shutdown your computer, you can have Windows to automatically open the previously opened folders by default.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off Restore previous folder windows at logon for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off "Restore previous folder windows at logon" in Folder Options
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off "Restore previous folder windows at logon" using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off "Restore previous folder windows at logon" in Folder Options
1. Open Folder Options.

2. Click/tap on the View tab, check (on) or uncheck (off - default) Restore previous folder windows at logon for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)








OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off "Restore previous folder windows at logon" using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

PersistBrowsers DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On


1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On "Restore previous folder windows at logon"
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Restore_previous_folder_windows_at_logon.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off "Restore previous folder windows at logon"
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Restore_previous_folder_windows_at_logon.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Previous File Explorer windows are not restored even after turning on the "Restore previous folder windows at logon" feature on a Windows 10 computer

This happens every time you reboot a Windows 10 computer, both Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise.

Please try it yourself.

• Open Folder Options and select the View tab.
• De-Select/Un-Check "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
• Select/Check "Restore previous folder windows at logon"
• Leave the File Explorer window open and reboot the computer
• The previous open folder window will not be restored after logon
• Open a File Explore window and open the C:\ root folder or the C:\Windows folder
• The protected operating system files will once again be hidden
• Open Folder Options and select the View tab
• Locate the same values changed previously and look at their current setting.
• They will have returned back to their default values
  • "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" will be Selected/Checked
  • "Restore previous folder windows at logon" will be De-selected/Un-Checked

It seems to be a bug in Windows 10 that I would like to report.

 

Windows 7 Club

Tip of the day! Fix for windows not positioned correctly

The position of the windows is not restored correctly after you turn on the "Restore previous folder windows at logon" feature on a Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Previous File Explorer windows are not restored even after turning on the "Restore previous folder windows at logon" feature on a Windows 10 computer

I have tried this on several different Windows 10 computers, but none of them seem to keep the following Folder View Options.

• Select/Check "Restore previous folder windows at logon"
• De-Select/Un-Check "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

I can see option two getting reset since Microsoft assumes I am not smart enough not to delete protected operating system files and gives me a warning when I are de-Select/un-Check the "Hide protected operating system files" option.

But I have also de-selected/un-checked all of the "Hide..." View options in the File Explorer Folder Options and they used to stick.

And I like to have the File Explorer folder windows I have open when I reboot, re-open where I left off.

 

Installing Windows 10 using Windows 7 key

Nope, you need to install Windows 10 first and make sure the Windows 7 key is transferred to your Windows account after you've installed Windows 10 (not quite sure how that works). I missed the last step and I could not activate Windows 10 after a re-install... Microsoft seem to have done everything they can to make it a PITA. Also, it's technically too late to do this now anyhow, as the upgrade offer has expired. But KMSPico works quite well...

As for getting rid of Windows, delete the Windows folder.