Please advise, and correct me for my understanding of the mechanism, or provide me some documents to read, thanks very much. IE saves current tabs and session information periodically in the folder '/USERNAME/Appdata/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/recovery/Active'Ī) by exiting IE, the content recently written in the 'Active' folder are deleted, which includes multiple under 'Acitve' registry key, sometimes it works, I constantly failed to restore session because too many tabs/windows start simultaneously can make my CPU 100% and finally dead.įrom my online research, Microsoft seems to use the following mechanism, basically:ġ. Some time the IE crashes and 'restore session' option is not available.Ģ. On the Windows Local Group Policy editor. Here’s how using the Group Policy settings in the Windows XP, Vista, and 7 professional editions: Open the Group Policy editor by running gpedit.msc from the XP Run.

If this is the case, you can disable the feature. Open the Windows Local Group Policy editor by entering ‘ gpedit.msc ‘ in Run command window and hit Enter key from keyboard. Being able to restore the last browsing session in Internet Explorer 8 is useful, but can also be a privacy issue for some. Environment: Windows7, 8, 8,1, Internet Explorer 11. So I have a need to figure out how Microsoft designs IE to restore sessions, because:ġ. Please follow the below steps to restore the last session in internet explorer using the Local Group Policy editor.

Restore last session ie