Joe English wrote:
>  Off on a tangent: I, personally, actually prefer it when applications
_don't_ start off exactly where I left them last.
>  I like it better when they always start in a fixed, predictable, and
of course reasonable configuration. 

One of the worse situations a user can find themselves in is
encountering a bug in a program, then discovering that the program
attempts to restart itself at the exact point where the bug happens...
It happened to me in the old days. At the very least, an application
needs an obvious, non-trivial way for the user to start up without
retaining the previous information.

On the other hand, I really do love it when a program remembers the
colors, fonts, window size and location, etc. that I tell it to use...

So, perhaps some sort of command line flag or something to return to the
defaults in the disasterous case... Or even better, if the program takes
note that it is crashing and saves off the old configuration information
?

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