RestoreMeNot customizes Mac OS X 10.7's window restoration functionality.
The window restoration feature of Mac OS X Lion is one of the coolest features of Apple's new OS. Sometimes however, one might not want the windows of a certain application to be restored when launching it. Unfortunately window restoration can only be disabled system-wide and not on a per-application basis.
This is where RestoreMeNot comes in and provides a simple preference pane for disabling window restoration for individual applications. Please note that RestoreMeNot is only designed to
Stuff like this is one of many reasons while I'm still using Snow Leapard instead of Lion. Thank you for making what Apple should add to Lion ASAP. Lion... it's should still be in beta.
Lion sucks plain and simple. If it were not that Snow Leopard will slowly be allowed to die I would simply stick with it. There is absolutely nothing new of value in Lion and the Restoration 'feature' on by default is awful.
System Preferences > General > Uncheck the box that says "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
The difference between this and RestoreMeNot is that RestoreMeNot lets you pick which programs you don't want to have resume whereas the Lion feature does it OS-wide for all apps.
Re xXAkumuXx:
The preference setting in Lion does not work as advertised on a Mac Pro with a clean & up to date install . Lion is still a beta & is a step backward from Snow Leopard.
Did you also remove the applications from the list in RestoreMeNot before removing the prefpane? Or else they will stay with the window restoration disabled.
There is a little bug in the application: If you use system preferences in 32bit mode a message occurs that RestoreMeNot can't be opened on Intel-Macs. If you start the preference pane in 64bit mode it perfectly works.
Neither mode works for me now. It just entirely stopped working. I can't get it to work and I've tried everything. Very irritating. I hope this issue gets addressed soon as this app is very useful.
"The window restoration feature of Mac OS X Lion is one of the coolest features of Apple's new OS... " Worst in 10.7 Lyon is to change the basic gesture (move and drag) on the trackpad with one finger in three not comfortable !
"Worst in 10.7 Lyon is to change the basic gesture (move and drag) on the trackpad with one finger in three not comfortable ! " I found a solution to restore the basic gesture from Snow Leopard - One Finger Move and Drag: System Preference> Universall Access> Mouse & Trackpad> Trackpad Options ...> Dragging-mark (one finger move and dragging from Snow Leopard). And disabe Preferece System> Trackpad> Point & Click> Tree Finger Drag (move with three fingers)-Unmark. Without this gesture Lion and the Mac is not the quality.
As an Appleseeder many of us had no problem with the feature OTHER than the fact that it does not have any way to completely disable it. There has been an enormous number of complaints over this since waaaay before it was released to the public. I gave up on being an Appleseeder after I saw just how little Apple took our suggestions to heart.
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RestoreMeNot customizes Mac OS X 10.7's window restoration functionality.
The window restoration feature of Mac OS X Lion is one of the coolest features of Apple's new OS. Sometimes however, one might not want the windows of a certain application to be restored when launching it. Unfortunately window restoration can only be disabled system-wide and not on a per-application basis.
This is where RestoreMeNot comes in and provides a simple preference pane for disabling window restoration for individual applications. Please note that RestoreMeNot is only designed to disable the window restoration and not the reopening of apps that is part of Apple's "Resume" feature.
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Stef_Vandenabele reviewed on 18 Feb 2012
It renders the weakest feature of Lion finally to the bin!
Great app and a must have for every OS X Lion user.
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System Preferences > General > Uncheck the box that says "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps".
The difference between this and RestoreMeNot is that RestoreMeNot lets you pick which programs you don't want to have resume whereas the Lion feature does it OS-wide for all apps.
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The preference setting in Lion does not work as advertised on a Mac Pro with a clean & up to date install . Lion is still a beta & is a step backward from Snow Leopard.
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