Monday, February 27, 2017

When Internet Explorer is configured to not allow restoring the previous session

There is a Group Policy option for Internet Explorer to disable restoring the previous session. If that's enabled, the menu item that allows a previously closed window's tabs to be called back up will be grayed out. If you feel really strongly about being able to get your tabs back after closing a window and don't have sufficient privilege to tinker with the part of the Registry that stores the policy settings, you do have a workaround.

If the Internet Explorer process is terminated, recovery information about the session isn't deleted. So, to preserve tabs across a reboot, use Task Manager (or equivalent) to terminate iexplore.exe. Then when you come back up and reopen it, click Restore session at the bottom to bring your arrangement back.

Based on my Super User answer.

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