Vista Tutorial - Internet Explorer - Reopen Last Browsing Session

**Brink** · **OPTION ONE:**

How to Reopen the Last Browsing Session in Vista Internet Explorer

Information

This will show you how to reopen the last browsing session in Vista for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 to when Internet Explorer was last closed.

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OPTION ONE:
In Internet Explorer 7

NOTE

This will set IE7 to save the current browsing session (opened tabs) when you close IE7 to have IE7 open them again automatically the next time you open IE7.

1. When you have more than one tab open, close Internet Explorer 7.

2. Click on Show Options for the Do you want to close all tabs? notice. (See screenshot below)

3. Check the Open these the next time I use Internet Explorer box. (See screenshot below step 4)
NOTE: If you checked the Do not show me this dialog again, you can get it back by checking Warn me when closing multiple tabs in OPTION ONE (step 5) here.

4. Click on the Close Tabs button. (See screenshot below)

OPTION TWO:
In Internet Explorer 8

NOTE

This will show you how to open the last IE8 browsing session when you open IE8 the next time.

1. Open Internet Explorer 8.

2. Click on Tools and Reopen Last Browsing Session. (See screenshots below)
NOTE: You can click on Tools from the Menu Bar or Command Bar button.

3. Internet Explorer will now open the tabs with the websites that you had open in the last Internet Explorer browsing session.

That's it,
Shawn

**swarfega** · 01-15-2009

For IE8, is there a way to get the tabs to automatically open previous session?

**Brink** · 01-15-2009

Hi Swarfega,

Sorry, but no. You have to go through the Tools menu in IE8. I do miss that from IE7 myself as well.

**swarfega** · 01-16-2009

shame :/

johnnyb73 · 02-06-2009

what in the world were they thinking? Is it really that hard to make that feature automatic? It's the one addictive thing about firefox... It's crazy that IE makes it so difficult.

01-15-2009
swarfega da Cleaner Join Date: May 2008 Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 403 posts	Re: Internet Explorer - Reopen Last Browsing Session For IE8, is there a way to get the tabs to automatically open previous session?
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01-15-2009
Brink Administrator Join Date: Apr 2007 Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 (7600) x64 25,815 posts	Re: Internet Explorer - Reopen Last Browsing Session Hi Swarfega, Sorry, but no. You have to go through the Tools menu in IE8. I do miss that from IE7 myself as well.
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01-16-2009
swarfega da Cleaner Join Date: May 2008 Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 403 posts	Re: Internet Explorer - Reopen Last Browsing Session shame :/
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02-06-2009
johnnyb73 Newbie Join Date: Feb 2009 32bit 1 posts	Re: Internet Explorer - Reopen Last Browsing Session what in the world were they thinking? Is it really that hard to make that feature automatic? It's the one addictive thing about firefox... It's crazy that IE makes it so difficult.
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