Thursday, May 24, 2012

Stop Mac 10.7 from re-opening all the windows in an application after you re-open it

For those who are annoyed by the helpful feature of the new Macs running 10.7


The new Mac computer has a "feature" that's meant to be handy.  When you quit a program (Command + Q) or File/Quit, it is going to re-open any files that are currently open the next time you open that same application.

This can be handy for starting up in the morning when you want to carry on where you left off, but if that's not what you want, it can be annoying!

To prevent this, there's a couple things you can do

Instead of hitting command + q  you can do command + option + q to have it not re-open those windows

OR

You can do Command + w to close each of the open windows, and then Command + q

OR

you can choose to disable this system wide:
Go into System Preferences, then General, and uncheck the "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." option.

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