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NewbUser
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Dec 13, 2020

is it possible to disable the "Restore pages" message?

Edge boots with a restore pages message constantly, which doesn't go away unless you click on it.   There seem to be many options to disable it on chrome and chromium, but haven't found any that wo...
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blackhillsken
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Mar 17, 2021

NewbUser This was bugging (pun intended) me too. I'm using Windows 10 with Edge, so YRMV, but this worked for me:

Open your browser. Click on the 3 dots all the way to the top right of the screen. 

Click on "Settings"

Click "System"

At the top right, turn off "Startup Boost"

 

If you have an old school hard drive, this might slow down startup of your browser a bit, but if you have a SSD, probably won't notice a difference.

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Alexandra-R
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Mar 19, 2021
Hey there, I had to clean up this thread a bit but just to answer a few questions that came up in the (removed) comments: this issue should have been posted to a new thread or to a current thread not only from the forum rules but because the specific behavior you are experiencing is an emerging issue with a recent Stable build. The team working on Startup Boost is looking in to what is causing this currently, and yes the workaround is to disable Startup Boost. Please read the community rules and remember to be respectful. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/microsoft-edge-insiders-community-guidelines/m-p/2214637
  • FiveThumbs's avatar
    FiveThumbs
    Copper Contributor
    May 12, 2021
    I experience this too and my Startup Boost is not enabled. It seems simple enough to not display that message if you have the browser configured to not restore pages. This is of course different than assigning a default start page.
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      aharown
      Copper Contributor
      Sep 01, 2021

      FiveThumbs 

      I have this problem also, on multiple devices. On all devices:

      • Speed boost is disabled
      • Tabs are set to not sync
      • On startup is set to open a new tab

      Is there any additional place to tell the browser not to restore pages/tabs?    

       

      (So far this is the only thing in new Edge that is seriously tempting me to return to Chrome... slowly driving me crazy.)

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        FiveThumbs
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 02, 2021
        aharown are you using shutdown.exe? I find that using this with an open Edge browser (I use -L and -F) causes the message. If you can close the browser before shutdown, the message does not seem to appear.

        I have not experimented with taskkill, but that seems to be a way to close a program from the command line.
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    Globespy
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 13, 2021

    Alexandra-R - thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately this does not work for me.
    On restart/startup this popup constantly nags until it is clicked on (closed).
    Running Version 89.0.774.76 (Official build) (64-bit)
    Here's how my settings look for your information:

     

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