Many customers of the desktop model of Outlook are being confronted with an annoying drawback: When you open Outlook, the mail program included in Microsoft 365, it repeatedly asks whether or not you wish to restore beforehand closed classes. Specifically, the dialogue window says “Outlook closed while you had items open. Reopen items from last session?”

Whether Outlook is closed by a crash, a system replace or manually, it doesn’t matter: Outlook asks at each restart whether or not outdated home windows ought to be restored. Clicking “Yes” restores draft e-mails and opens all e-mail home windows or appointments that have been open over the last session.

For many customers, the setting accountable for whether or not it is best to see these prompts can’t be discovered within the Outlook choices, regardless that a variety ought to seem that allows you to select whether or not Outlook ought to restore earlier contents. If that’s the case for you, the annoying immediate can’t be completely deactivated in this system. The accountable function was launched with Outlook for Windows on Beta Channel Version 2006 (Build 13006.20002) an excellent three years in the past. Now, nonetheless, it’s inflicting issues as a result of it’s activated by default.

Temporary workaround

The crew behind Outlook continues to be searching for the reason for this annoying habits. Until a closing resolution is discovered, nonetheless, Microsoft is providing a short lived repair that disables restoration and thus bypasses the fixed prompting. Open the Windows registry editor (Regedit) and navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice16.0OutlookPreferences”. There, right-click, hover over “New,” and create a brand new DWORD worth known as “ReopenWindowsOption”. Give it the worth “1”. Boom!. After closing Regedit and reopening Outlook, the annoying immediate ought to now not seem.