Windows 7: It All Comes Back
I’ve been using Windows 7 since early betas, so I have come to take some of its great features for granted. Recently I was reminded by a friend who just switched from XP to Win7 about one of the nicest “little things” that makes the new OS such a joy to use. The power went out and he had to quickly shut down the computer – right in the middle of a big project he was working on. He had almost a dozen web sites open that he was using as a source for his research. It had taken him a while to hunt them all down. He also had an open Word document and a few PDFs. When the system shut down, he was just sick at the thought of how much time it would take to find all those web sites again, and wondering how much of the doc he’d lost.
When Windows 7 booted back up, he was amazed. All of his windows opened right back up to where they were before, and he was able to pick up where he left off and go back to work without missing a beat.
Of course, just switching to IE8 on XP would have helped him a lot in this situation, since IE8 “remembers” your last browsing session and will reopen the browser to those pages. But he’d been using XP with IE7, so all of this seemed truly miraculous to him.
The ability to reopen your previous browsing session is one of the nice features of IE8
Of course, there are scenarios in which this could be a security issue. Maybe you want to ensure that someone else can’t come along and reopen your last browsing session (and thus discover where you were browsing). In that case, you can disable this feature via a registry edit. See the January 28 edition of Win7News, “How To” section, for step-by-step instructions.
To conceal your browsing history, also remember to clear the cache (Tools | Delete Browsing History).
- Debra Littlejohn Shinder, MVP
deb@shinder.net www.debshinder.com
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