Shutdown question

[Craig234]

After my PC runs several hours, it starts to get disk intensive and slow. If I want to speed it up, it's a reboot. I'm looking at increasing RAM to avoid this.

But in the meantime a question:

I have dozens of IE tabs open. After a reboot, I like to use 'restore session' to bring them back. But if I shut down the OS, it won't do it.

Only if I power off the PC to shut it down - then the 'restore sessions' is available.

But I suspect that may be risking problems, such as to the hardware, especially the SSD, so is there a better way?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Have you tried logging out and back in to clear the lag?

I'm surprised IE has a restore session option... A quick look and I see the option to "Reopen last browsing session" under Tools. Try that.

 

[Craig234]

Have you tried logging out and back in to clear the lag?

I'm surprised IE has a restore session option... A quick look and I see the option to "Reopen last browsing session" under Tools. Try that.

Doesn't logging out close the browser? When I've tried 'reopen last browsing session' without a hard power off, it only re-opens one browser tab.

But that may have involved having opened a browser window... could test more but would risk losing all the current tabs.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Doesn't logging out close the browser?

Yes, it does. It closes all programs not started automatically at Windows startup.

When I've tried 'reopen last browsing session' without a hard power off, it only re-opens one browser tab.

But that may have involved having opened a browser window... could test more but would risk losing all the current tabs.

The best way to test this would be with a separate user account, but I just tested this, and with three tabs open I closed the browser. After restarting IE I automatically get the home page, and when choosing Tools > Reopen... I get the three tabs from previous session in addition to the current home page tab (4 tabs total). Maybe you need to adjust your Tab settings under Internet Options (General).