Solved. New win 11 laptop - win explorer keeps popping up on start up.

JohnB47

OK, I've tried solving this myself, using web advice, but nothing I try works.

I've turned off Autoplay and have made sure it's not in the start menu.

I've seen advice to try disabling it in Process Manager but there is no disable option for it.

Also, I see Ai advice like "Disable Folder Restoration: Open File Explorer, click the three dots (...) in the menu bar, select Options > View tab. Uncheck "Restore previous folder windows at logon"."

But the "Restore previous folder …." option isn't there.

Any magic up-to-date solution for this?

Thanks.

Frozen_up_north

Check Settings, Startup Apps.

flaneurs_lobster

There's this "Automatically open….." in Settings for Edge

Might that help (not a habitual Edge user)?

Frozen_up_north

Also in Settings, System, Multi-tasking, turn off "Snap windows"

The "Snap windows" is that annoying Windows 11 feature where when you move a running program window near the edge of the screen it tries to shift everything around…

JohnB47

Thanks everyone. This has been fixed now - a young relative has just visited and noticed that the path shown on the explorer window was to a startup folder. When this target folder was deleted, all was well.

Thanks again.