How to prevent NetBeans from remembering open files?

Question

When I start NetBeans, I don't want it to automatically open the files that were open when I last closed it.

The only way I found to do that is to delete the following files:

del /q "%APPDATA%\Netbeans\7.2.1\config\Windows2Local\Components\MultiView-java*"

Is there a better way, e.g. an option that prevents NetBeans from saving the state of the open files on exit?

Answer 1

I know the question is very old but the issue is still there :) and the solution is the following:

Set/Open the desired starting files, project and then go to menu Window > Reset Windows.

It will remember whatever you had. So if you close all documents and call window reset, you will have no default opened files, which might be great for some of us.