When you restart your computer, you lose all the opened apps and folders. But what if you always work with several folders and want to restore them when you restart your computer? It is possible on Windows 11/10 to restore the previous folders after restarting the computer on which you were working. Microsoft has provided a separate option to restore these folders. That means no need to remember the folder name on which you were working before.
In this gearupwindows article, we will guide you through restoring the previously opened folders at Logon on Windows 11/10.
How to Revive Previous Opened Folders at Logon on Windows 11?
Step 1. Open File Explorer by pressing
Alternatively, perform a right-click on the
Step 2. Click on the three dots menu (…) and select
Step 3. After completing the above steps, the Folder Options dialog will open.
Step 4. Click on the
Step 5. Under the Advanced settings section, check the option
Step 6. Click
Step 7. Click
That’s it! Open a few folders on your computer and then restart your computer without closing them. After sign-in in to your machine, you will notice that all the folders opened before restarting your computer have been restored.
How to Restore Previous Opened Folders at Logon on Windows 10?
Step 1. Press
Step 2. Click on the
Step 3. Now, the Folder Options window opens.
Step 4. Click on the
Step 5. Click the checkbox labeled with
Step 6. Click on the
Step 7. Finally, click on the
That’s it. All the folders that were opened before doing shutdown will be restored automatically when you sign in to your computer after shutdown or restart your PC.
Good luck.
How to accomplish the same thing for tabs? Windows 11 now has tabs, but only the active tab is restored at logon.
Does not work for me; never has since upgrading to Win 11, though it did work before under Win 10.
Updated the PC’s OS yesterday and it still does not work.
The check box is ticked, but Explorer folders are not preserved across a shutdown/restart cycle.