Notepad Setting for Disabling Auto-open Previous Files

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How do I stop Notepad   from loading all files from the past session   Every time I open a file I have 10 other open tabs with all my past files  I don t want that  When I hit the close button I expect the program to do what I want and close it  If I wanted to save a session I would use the built in session save feature  I don t want to hit the gray x 20 times when I am done so next time I don t have a bunch of files opening and taking up memory    I tried the -nosession parameter and that works  But it only works if I use the shortcut  It won t work if I use the right-click edit method  How do I set Notepad   to do this

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Go to  Settings   Preferences   Backup   and Uncheck Remember current session for next launch  In older versions  6 5-   this option is located on Settings   Preferences   MISC

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For versions 6 6  you need to uncheck  Remember the current session for next launch  on Settings - gt  Preferences - gt  Backup     For older versions you need to uncheck  Remember the current session for next launch   on Settings - gt  Preferences

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I read the answers   Then I noticed for me that the check box was already unchecked  but it still always reloaded the files    This is the Settings- Preferences- MISC-  Remember current session for next launch  check box on version 6 3 2    The following got rid of the problem   1  Check the check box  2  Exit the program  3  Start the program again  4  Uncheck the checkbox

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Use the menu item Settings Preferences    On the MISC tab of the resulting dialog  uncheck  Remember current session for next launch

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My problem was that Notepad   was crashing on a file I had previously opened  I was unable to open the application at all  This blog post discusses how to delete the data from the  Sessions  file so that Notepad   will open without having any prior files open   From the blog post       Method 1 - edit session xml         Open file session xml in C  Users Username AppData Roaming Notepad   or  APPDATA  Notepad     Delete its contents and save it   Run Notepad     session xml will get new content automatically         Method 2 - add the -nosession parameter to Notepad   shortcut         Create a desktop shortcut referring to your Notepad   program  e g  C  Program Files Notepad   notepad   exe   Right click on this shortcut   In the  Target  field add the -nosession parameter so the target field looks exaxtly like  apostrophes included too    C  Program   Files Notepad   notepad   exe  -nosession   Save and run Notepad   from this shortcut icon with no recent files      Note  This is not a permanent setting  this simply deletes the prior session s information   opened files and starts over   Alternatively  if you know the file which is causing notepad   to hang  you can simply rename the file and open notepad    This will solve the problem   I hadn t seen this solution listed when I was googling my problem so I wanted to add it here

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Ok  I had a problem with Notepad   not remembering that I had chosen not the  Remember Current Session   I tried hacking the config file  but that didn t work  Then I found out that there is a secret config file in your C  Users myuseraccount AppData Roaming Notepad   directory  Windows 7 x64   Mine was empty  meaning who know where the config was really coming from  but I copied over the file with the one in C  Program Files  x86  Notepad   and now everything works just like you would expect it to

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In Notepad   v6 6 this setting is moved to the Backup tab of the Preferences menu

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