This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically restart apps when you sign back in for your account in Windows 11.
You can have Windows automatically save your open restartable apps when you sign out, restart the computer, or shut down the computer and restart them when you sign back in.
Starting with Windows 11 build 22635.4580 (Beta), when “Restore previous folder windows at logon” is enabled in File Explorer, Windows will also now restore all the extra tabs which you previously had open in each File Explorer window. As part of this work, Microsoft has also updated the logic for the “Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in” setting via Settings > Accounts > Sign in options, so that when you enable this, Windows will automatically enable the File Explorer specific setting for you too.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Automatically Restart Apps when Sign back in in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Automatically Restart Apps when Sign back in using REG file
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Accounts on the left side, and click/tap on Sign-in options on the right side. (see screenshot below)
Open Sign-in options settings
3 Under Additional settings, turn On or Off (default) Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.
2 Turn On "Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in"
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_ON_automatically_restart_apps_when_sign_back_in_for_current_user.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"RestartApps"=dword:000000013 Turn Off "Automatically save my restartable apps and restart them when I sign back in"
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_automatically_restart_apps_when_sign_back_in_for_current_user.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"RestartApps"=dword:000000004 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 Brink
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