> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf Of John Ferrell
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:08 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [ot]: Rebooting Windows
> 
> I keep a lot of processes open in Windows XP at a time. When I reboot,
I lose track of what I > was working on. The entity that is "I" is
getting old and outdated but upgrade is not 
> feasable at this point. It was created in 1940.
> 
> I seem to recall that at one time when I rebooted the system would
bring up the applications > that were active at shutdown. Is this
do-able with XP?


It's not outside the realms of possibility.

There's a registry key much loved by spyware called RunOnce, mainly used
by install programs to run tidy-up stuff after a reboot - the 'reboot to
continue installation' message.

When shutting down, you'd need to scan for all open apps, and write them
to the RunOnce key.  At reboot, they'd open, and by removed from the
list.

Downside is it's a bit hard to open the application AND the document you
were looking at.  You could look in the 'Recent Documents' list, and see
if any of those files are still open (check the locks).  Of course, you
need to get in before the application itself closes.

Could be done...

Otherwise just move what you always want to open to the Startup menu.

Tony8

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