Win10 1709’s most irksome ‘feature’: Programs come back from the dead

Here’s a quick question. In Windows, if you have a program running when you reboot your machine, does Windows:

1. Start up clean, regardless of what was running at the time of shutdown?
2. Boot, then automatically launch all of the previously running programs?
3. Give you an option, to choose between 1 and 2?

The answer? In every version of Windows that I’ve used (going back to Windows 286), it’s clearly the first option. Of course you don’t want your old junk to come back. Cleaning out and starting fresh is a, uh, time-honored Windows tradition.

But in Win10 Fall Creators Update — version 1709 — the answer is 2.

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