No need to start one by one your favorite applications and manually open your favorite sites each time you turn on your PC. Windows has a function to do it automatically.
You probably use many applications and web pages during a working day or leisure on your PC. All these windows are kept when you put your PC in standby, and restored when you wake your computer. On the other hand, if you completely turn off your machine, all the programs are automatically closed, and you must then relaunch them by one during the next ignition.
Completely extinguishing your computer, rather than simply putting it in standby, is a good habit to take, because it saves energy, finish the installation of updates and solve certain problems. Despite these advantages, having to re-open the same applications and web pages manually when you start or restart the computer can quickly prove to be tedious on a daily basis.
The prolonged watch is an interesting first intermediate solution. Unlike conventional watch, it (almost) does not consume any energy and does not lose your data in the event of a power outage. To use it, you must, however, activate a specific option on Windows 10 and 11. In addition, it does not allow you to finalize the installation of updates, to reset the background processes, or to empty the caches data.
Completely extinguishing your computer with regular maturity therefore remains essential. Fortunately, Windows has two practical functions, which allow you to benefit from the benefits of stopping or restarting, while instantly finding the open applications and interinction pages when extinction of the computer. To take advantage of it, just activate two simple options that are easy to find in the system.
First, open the Parameters of Windows, then go to the section Accounts> Connection options. There, activate the switch to the right of the option entitled Automatically save my reddemarious applications and restart it when I reconnect. Once in place, this function will therefore automatically revive open applications when you stop your computer, in the state they were.
The system works very well for Windows native programs and Microsoft software, such as the Edge browser, which will launch with all its tabs, or Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications, which will reopen on the documents during PC stop. On the other hand, all third -party applications are not supported by this function. If Chrome restarts well with all its tabs, this is not the case with Firefox for example.
Oddly, the file explorer does not reopeue on its own at the start of the PC when this function is activated. To do it, you need to activate a second option. Open itFile explorerclick on The three points in the toolbarthen on Options. There, click on the tab Displaythen in the list Advanced parameterscheck the box entitled Restore the windows of open files at the next session opening.
Once this setting in place, the file explorer will therefore open automatically when starting or restarting your computer, in folders that were opened when stopping. Be careful however, if you had opened Several tabs in the same window explorer window At the time of stopping, they will then be relaunched in separate windows, which quickly clutter the office.
But good news, an improvement in this behavior would be under development by Microsoft. As spotted by the Windows Latest site in an article of December 9, 2024, the Build 22635.4580 of Windows 11 would instantly reopen the explorer of files with all its tabs after a restart. This function is currently tested on the BETA channel of the Windows Insiders program, and may therefore be available for everyone during a future update.