Hi,
in my old win2k system whenever I reboot, the system remembers explorer position and open apps so they are restored.
In win xp32 with DO 8 I can't seem to find a checkbox that enables this function. It would be very handy, instead of reopening all apps, windows, etc, to have a "session" memory.
any suggestions?
tia
Evan
The easiest way to do this with Opus would be to manually save the current layout before rebooting. You could have a layout which you always used for this which could be set to reopen on launch.
There's no automated way to save the layout on reboot though.
How is this an 'Opus' question? Maybe a topic for the coffeeshop?
Oh - I thought the OP was talking specifically about Opus remembering his open listers etc.
May as well leave it here now as I've forced it back on topic. 
This option works fine on my computer, and Opus remembers the last listers displayed.
[quote="steve"]The easiest way to do this with Opus would be to manually save the current layout before rebooting. You could have a layout which you always used for this which could be set to reopen on launch.
There's no automated way to save the layout on reboot though.[/quote]
Could be... but he mentioned 'apps, windows, etc, a few times... so it seemed more a generic 'Windows' thing now that he's made the moce from Win2000 to WinXP.
Anyhow, he could also probably use the 'Automatically update Default Lister...' option and set Opus to 'Open the Default Lister' on startup to get Opus to fire up wherever he left after restarting no? Rather than a specific named Layout? Or maybe Opus doesn't get to 'save' the default lister layout when Windows Shut Down is the cause of the program exit - that seems to ring a bell...
Yeah, you're right, he might want apps to be restored as well. But of course Opus isn't Windows , so the most he can get is what I have shown. I don't think updating the default lister is what the OP is after, but anyway, let him talk for himself 
[quote="steje"]Could be... but he mentioned 'apps, windows, etc, a few times... so it seemed more a generic 'Windows' thing now that he's made the moce from Win2000 to WinXP.
Anyhow, he could also probably use the 'Automatically update Default Lister...' option and set Opus to 'Open the Default Lister' on startup to get Opus to fire up wherever he left after restarting no? Rather than a specific named Layout? Or maybe Opus doesn't get to 'save' the default lister layout when Windows Shut Down is the cause of the program exit - that seems to ring a bell...[/quote]
Woopsy... Alan's suggestion for the Opus portion seems even better. Still sounded like a broader stroke question to me tho...
I really should read the changes log sometimes. 
I haven't tested when Opus is closed automatically by Windows when the restart is initiated - I presume it works fine though ?
Thank you all for your feedback!
Thing is DO somehow "overtakes" WinExplorer, and this option is not available.
In machines without DO replacing WinEx, it seems to work for me.
That is why I think it is not an OT thread but has to do with Opus.
I know about some vga card apps that allow memory of opened programs.
However even if I just want DO and notepad to open imediatelly after booting, this is something that does not require desktop managing apps, it is usually a windows thing.
Explorer doesn't restart your last-used apps when you reboot Windows. Nothing does as far as I know. Also, if Opus is set to replace Explorer then it only replaces Explorer for folders and wouldn't affect any applications which Explorer launched.
Are you sure you haven't added those applications to your Startup group in Program Files or something like that?
If you see exactly the same thing after rebooting on your other machine, i.e. the same applications, windows, documents and so on, then I suspect your are not restarting the machine but are instead hibernating it, which is quite different. If you hibernate a machine then the state of everything in memory is saved to the HDD, then the machine turns off. Next time it turns on the memory is reloaded from the HDD and everything runs as it was before. That is nothing to do with Opus or Explorer, though; it's just a matter of how you shut down Windows.
Whether or not Windows offers the option to Hibernate instead of shutting down depends on the version of Windows, the configuration and maybe your drivers. I think on XP if you hold shift or ctrl on the shutdown screen you'll see the Hibernate option appear. On Vista it's in the little menu off the arrow next to the shutdown button. On both it can be disabled completely.
Whenever I reboot on the non DO pc due to say a windows update, the same explorer window opens, an instance of notepad and perhaps a web browser that where all open before the restart.
I have not hibernate enabled, and certainly nothing in the start up folder as I have also disabled many auto startup apps.
In the DO pc also, this check box is on, so normally the windows should relaunch.
That option only restores FOLDER windows. Opus has a similar option, shown in Alan's screenshot above.
That option in Explorer won't restore Notepad windows and I doubt it will restore Internet Explorer windows either. It definitely won't restore other browser windows like Firefox, although Firefox has its own option to restore sessions on restart.
Basically, unless you hibernate instead of reboot, there is no generic mechanism in Windows -- whether you use Explorer or Opus -- to restore all programs which were open before you rebooted. Some programs -- including Explorer, Opus and Firefox -- offer the option of doing it for their own windows but it isn't a generic feature of Windows and it has nothing to do with which file manager you are using. Notepad doesn't support such a feature, as far as I know. I suspect you've been hibernating the other machine, or have Notepad set to launch on startup.