How can I disable the restart that brings up my old documents . . . even if I've closed and emptied them?

I understand the feature that re-opens documents when you restart. But now, whenever I open something I had been using earlier, the docs I had been working on -- but finished with -- also re-open.
Especially noticeable is Photoshop Elements. This is my default photo manipulation software, and when I click on a new image, it opens . . . over the previous two or three I had worked on earlier. But I closed the durned thing. That had always dropped all active images off.
Is there a system-wide NOW STOP THAT! that I can use?

"Auto Save" is Apple's term, I guess. Its controls are so well-hidden I'm flying blind here.
But as I put it in a note to a magazine dedicated to Apple:
I think Auto Save is one of the dumbest things Apple has ever come up with -- oh so typical of what Bill Gates used to give people: lots of extra stuff no one ever asked for, and no one at his company ever thought through.
Say there's a conflict with a program or two I'm trying to use. Machine locks up. I force quit and shut down -- probably without ever seeing the option of stopping Auto Save.
When I open up again, what am I faced with? Yup, exactly the same mess I just tried to get away from.
Boo, Apple!

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