Reopen Windows When Restarting Doesn't (Yosemite)

When restarting an checkbox appears allowing open windows to be re-opened after restarting. This is a great idea, except that it does not do what it says. It allows open Applications to be re-opened after a restart, but not open Finder Windows. Is there a way to restore open Finder Windows after a restart?

Just to record that I (and several other people I've seen with this problem) have the symptom Wayneswhirld describes without having apps set to 'Open at login' selected. I've created a StackExchange question describing the problem and suggested (but non-working) solutions I've found: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/39555/unchecking-restore-windows-when-q uitting-and-re-opening-apps-doesnt-work

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How do I disable "reopen windows when logging back in"

Everytime I shutdown the mac asks me "reopen windows when logging back in". In fact the default is to do reopen all open programs when I restart. he annoying thing with apple is that when you close a window like Safari and iPhoto the program itself is not closed unless you spend extra time to go and QUIT each program. So naturally at least Mail and Safari are up when I'm ready to shutdown. On a other days MS Word, Excel and iPhoto are open as well. This is annoying to have to remember to QUIT everything when I'm sleepy before shutting down. Mac is supposed to be convenient not tedious. Please stop asking me if I want to reopen on logging back in. And worse yest stop assuming that this is the default action. Someone please help!

You can uncheck the option box on the shut down screen. Or you can use a terminal command to disable it completely. Or you can get in the habit of using Command+Q (No Caps on the Q, Command+q) to shut down programs that you no longer need running. And if you get in that habit of using Command+q you don't need to close the window or windows that are open for that program. Command+q will close the program and the active window/s.
EDIT:
Here is a site that give you the command to disable this annoying ?FEATURE?.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/disable-reopen-windows-when-logging-back-in-in-ma c-os-x-lion-completely/
Message was edited by: Shootist007

How do I enable "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS 10.8.5?

I am one of the few people who actually liked that when I shut down at the end of the day I could go back to the same state when I logged back in.
Is there an option to restore the "reopen windows when logging back in" in OS 10.8.5?

The exact item you asked for, [√] Re-Open windows When logging back in ...
... is on the Logout screen. Logout and make sure that box is checked, then log back in again.
A related item is in
System preferences > General ...
[√] Close windows when quitting an Application
--When selected, open documents and windows will not be restored when you re-open an Application

What gives? I uncheck "Reopen windows when logging out" and it still goes back to the prev. sessions windows. Is there a fix for this?

What gives? I uncheck "Reopen windows when logging out" and it still goes back to the prev. sessions windows. Is there a fix for this?

I unchecked " Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." in the prefs. and still it goes back to the prev windows sessions when I uncheck "Reopen windows when logging out"

Turn off "Reopen windows when logging back in"

Here's the problem:
When shutting off...
Check mark on: it opens all my apps (Open Active window) that I currently have as auto startup each time I bootup. Like itunes and skype
Check mark off: It opens all my apps, but allows them to be hiding, (in the background).
How could I always have the Check Mark Off ? This is really bothersome.

No way?
Try this.
Step 1: Go to ‘System Preferences’.
Step 2: Find the ‘General’ menu' and open it.
Step 3: Go to the bottom under “Number of recent items”
Step 4: Unclick the box “Restore windows when quiting and re-opening apps”.

Finder doesn't reopen all windows on restart

In Snow Leopard, when restarting, the Finder would remember the multiple windows I had open before restart and reopen those windows. Since getting my new Macbook Pro with Lion, the Finder now remembers only one or two of the windows that were open when restarting. (And yes, the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox has not been unchecked.)

Thanks for the reply, but I do have the Restore Windows box checked (see below). And the Resume features info (cnet link) only addresses how to turn the feature off, either selectively or globally. I'm simply looking for the functionality that I had with Snow Leopard and now seems to be absent. Maybe it's a bug in my Finder.

Yosemite FileVault resizes application reopened windows after login

HI,
I have a weird behaviour of reopened application windows (Reopen windows when logging back in feature) after I switched on the FileVault disk encryption. I think that it could be due to the fact that login screen is in 1280x800 resolution and my set resolution is 1680x1050. FileVault has different login process, when I had it switched off I did not notice this issue.
Now when I log into the system I can see all application windows at the top left corner with the smaller screen size than the ones which have been when I shut down the computer.
I have MacBook PRO 2013 Retina, Yosemite OS X 10.10 (14A389)
Does anybody have the same issue?
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I am just seeing if anyone has a suggestion. The scenario is oddly similar. I had 2 drive in. First drive was being copied to second drive with Carbon Copy Cloner. First drive had some bad sectors and performance issues. Second drive wouldn't start up the system reliably, but the data was there. Installed a new drive, installed OS X 10.10.1. Everything runs great if I leave it there. Once I migrate the data from the 2nd drive in place, the loginwindow process slowly creeps up until 300 copies are running along with over 60 SecurityAgents. All memory is being used and the system is a challenge to work with (virtually impossible).
I am assuming a corrupt file is getting copied during the transfer, but I have no way to know what that file is. If it makes a difference, all loginwindow processes except "loginwindow console" are owned by root. "loginwindow console" is owned by my account as expected.

How to 'restore open windows on restart' in Snow Leopard

My 10.6.8 2.66 Intel Core 2 Duo laptop is getting really bogged down and slow. Ocassionally I like to restart it but I lose all my open windows. Can't seem to find a "reopen windows when logging back in" function. Anyone know how to do this?

If you always open the same files then place aliases in a folder - let's call it 'Start' and place it in the Documents folder as an example.
Then paste this into the AppleScript editor, obviously entering your short name in the approriate place in the path:
tell application "Finder"
open every item of folder "Start" of folder "Documents" of folder "(user)" of folder "Users" of startup disk
end tell
(There are only three lines in this, don't put a line return in the second one even though the forum will show it as such.)
Save this somewhere convenient. Open System Preferences>Accounts and click the 'Login items' tab. Click the '+' button and navigate to the script.
However, if as seems more likely, you want to open a different selection of files each time, dependent on what you were last working on, then I'm afraid this facility is not available in Snow Leopard. You would have to upgrade your System to Lion minimum. (Note that this would disable any PPC programs you have.)

Disable reopen windows

Hi
I was just wondering if anyone out there knew how to disable the reopen window feature, when shutting down, or restarting Lion I hate this feature I would like to be able to check this box to able the feature not the other way around, being a newbie to the whole mac world maybe am missing something. Any help, tips, ideas about this would be much appreciated
Frank

Yep, have a look at this: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/25/disable-reopen-windows-when-logging-back-in-in-ma c-os-x-lion-completely/

Lion: failure to honor un-setting of "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" ?

I have noticed an annoying "feature" of Lion, and I'm hoping that someone might have found a workaround.
If I uncheck Preferences->General->Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps, some of my apps still seem to ignore that setting after a restart.
Here's a scenario which illustrates the problem:
Uncheck the Preferences setting mentioned above.
Open up a few Finder windows.
Open up a few Terminal windows.
In the Terminal Preferences, disable everything related to Window Groups.
Do a Logout or a Restart. Uncheck Reopen windows when logging back in.
Relog in.
Open one Terminal window.
After step 6, all of the Finder windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will also reopen.
After step 7, all of the Terminal windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will reopen, in addition to the single Terminal window which is manually opened after login.
The only way I can prevent this from happening to Terminal is to add the following two lines right before the final </dict> tag in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
However, this has the undesirable side-effect of not showing anything about Terminal in the menu bar or the dock.
None of this used to happen in Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. Does anyone know how I can disable this unwanted window-opening-after-relogin behavior in Lion?
Thanks in advance.

Try the Lion community, there are others with same and similar questions;
And, this is not the MacBook Pro forum, so might want to bookmark and find that as well.
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
http://www.apple.com/support/lion

Lion: failure to honor the un-setting of "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" ?

I have noticed an annoying "feature" of Lion, and I'm hoping that someone might have found a workaround.
If I uncheck Preferences->General->Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps, some of my apps still seem to ignore that setting after a restart.
Here's a scenario which illustrates the problem:
Uncheck the Preferences setting mentioned above.
Open up a few Finder windows.
Open up a few Terminal windows.
In the Terminal Preferences, disable everything related to Window Groups.
Do a Logout or a Restart. Uncheck Reopen windows when logging back in.
Relog in.
Open one Terminal window.
After step 6, all of the Finder windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will also reopen.
After step 7, all of the Terminal windows which were previously open before Logout or Restart will reopen, in addition to the single Terminal window which is manually opened after login.
The only way I can prevent this from happening to Terminal is to add the following two lines right before the final </dict> tag in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Info.plist:
<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>
However, this has the undesirable side-effect of not showing anything about Terminal in the menu bar or the dock.
None of this used to happen in Snow Leopard, Leopard, or Tiger. Does anyone know how I can disable this unwanted window-opening-after-relogin behavior in Lion?
Thanks in advance.

To urabus. Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, this is does not work for me. Furthermore, even if it did work the way you said, it would not be a viable alternative for me.
When I hold down the Option key and select the Terminal menu, I see this: Quit and Keep Windows, not Quit and Discard Windows. If I let go of the Option key, this menu entry changes to simply Quit Terminal. Therefore, I don't even have the option to quit and discard my windows.
As I mentioned, however, even if I had the option you mention, it is not desirable for me. When I restart, I want the OS to properly close all my open windows in the same way that it did in Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger. It is not desirable for me to have to manually close some or all of my apps in a special way before restart, simply to cause them to behave the way that un-checking Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps is supposed to control.
Here is one reason (out of several), for why I don't want this auto-reopen-windows-on-restart "feature": some of my Terminal windows run ssh sessions to remote sites. It is a Bad Thing for these ssh sessions to be auto-restored after Restart, without my having to specificially initiate these sessions.
IMHO, Apple should offer an alternative to this undesirable behavior. For example, during the shutdown procedure which is part of a Restart, we are asked if we want to kill any open Terminal windows. The "Quit and Discard Windows" option could be offered at that point ... but it isn't.
Furthermore, as I mentioned above, this unwanted behavior also occurs in Finder.
Is there any option that I can set in my system or in the defaults for com.apple.Terminal and com.apple.Finder which would force an automatic "Quit and Discard Windows" on restart or re-login?
Updated to add second paragraph which explains how hitting the Option key when selecting the Terminal menu does not work.

ELIMINATE 'REOPEN WINDOWS' AT SHUTDOWN

anooying new check box that needs to be unchecked in shutdown screen.
someone in these discussion suggested:
There is also a keyboard shortcut to shut down that will eliminate the need to remember to unckeck "Reopen windows when logging back in".
Command + Option + Control + Eject
that doesn't work. only thing that works is quitting apps before shutdown.
anyway ideas?

This is mostly solved now, unless you use that keyboard shortcut listed above. I'm still looking for an answer to that… but for the mean the link below is a work-around solution. And what @baltwo said is right, submit Feedback to Apple about it!
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2012/03/how-to-permanently-prevent-os -x-10.7-lion-from-ever-re-opening-apps-after-a-restart

Can I default the 'Reopen windows' flag to 'off'

With Lion, a new logout option appears to 'Reopen windows at login.' It defaults to 'on,' meaning two clicks to exit if that is not your usual work flow. I thought there used to be an option to change the default, but it didn't work. Now, I can't even find that Preference, although I may just not be looking in the right places.
Is there a way to not have to de-select this option every time I log out?
Thanks,
g

If you want to permanently avoid having to uncheck the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox at each shutdown, you may consider doing this:
1. Close all apps you don't want to open at startup.
2. Open your user Library folder. It is normally invisible, so press the Option key while selecting the "Go" menu in the Finder then select "Library" to open it.
3. Use the Get Info dialog "Locked" checkbox to lock this plist file:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.*.plist
where "~" is your home folder and "*" is a sequence of characters (12 in my case). No need to lock the corresponding lockfile.
This plist is where the System stores "reopen windows" info, so the System can't change/delete it if it is locked. This won't change the "Reopen windows..." checkbox setting, but that setting will no longer have any effect.

How to get rid of reopen window box on shutdown

I want to have my Mac default to not opening windows previously opened and I want to get rid of the anoying default "reopen windows" box when I shut down. How do I do this?

A permanent replacement for the "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox is as follows:
1. Close all apps you don't want to open at startup.
2. Open your user Library folder. It is normally invisible, so press the Option key while selecting the "Go" menu in the Finder then select "Library" to open it.
3. Use the Get Info dialog "Locked" checkbox to lock this plist:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.loginwindow.*.plist
where "~" is your home folder and "*" is a sequence of characters (12 in my case). No need to lock the corresponding lockfile.
This plist is where the System stores "reopen windows" info, so the System can't change/delete it if it is locked. This won't change the "Reopen windows..." checkbox setting, but that setting will no longer have any effect.

Suppressing "reopen windows" dialog when restarting a crashed program

Hi All,
Is there any way of suppressing the alert dialog that pops up when restarting a crashed program? The alert's text reads:
"The last time you opened <app name>, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows. Do you want to try to reopen its windows again?"
I want the OS to just open the program without asking me this, since the computer is being used in a kiosk-type application.
Thanks,
c.

Yes, I still have access to the keyboard for a tty. It's just that X doesn't respond to any keyboard inputs.
I totally didn't know that you could run stuff on an X display from a tty. Worked with env DISPLAY=:0.0 xeyes
I think this is the most elegant solution.
The Ctrl+Alt+Bksp can no longer be activated with Option "DontZap" "false". There is a way to re-enable it with HAL or a setting in KDE/Gnome keyboard layout settings. It still kills everything in the X session though.
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