How to prevent Visual Studio Code from always reopening the previous files or folders?

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You can also go into your settings and use the following:

"window.reopenFolders": "none"

which will not reopen the folders you were working on when you closed the editor. The other options are one (the default) and all.

Edit 2017-11-09:

The option is now changed in latest versions.

"window.restoreWindows": "none"

See Mathieu DOMER's answer.

Edit 2018-09-12:

Another setting related to this is the hotExit setting. This has been discussed in this answer to a related question. To prevent reopening and remembering unsaved files, you can set this to:

"files.hotExit": "off"

But from the test I've made, when the window.restoreWindows setting is set to none, this is not needed. I haven't tested every possible combination, so YMMV.

And to answer a question in the comments, to edit the settings, you have to open the settings file. Some documentation can be found here (at least on the date I am writing this).

With latest update, it seems that the parameter has changed, now use:

"window.restoreWindows": "none"

In VS Code:

• for Windows/Linux Ctrl+, (or choose File/Preferences/Settings) to open the settings page.
• for Mac ⌘+, (or choose Code -> Preferences -> Settings) to open the settings page.

then type restoreWindows in the Search settings input to filter for this setting. Set it to none and restart the browser.

You can add the -n option to the startup of VS Code and it will always start with an empty window, not restoring your previous session.

01 December 2018

This works for me. i.e. "C:\Users\Sampath\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" -n

Below worked for me

Right-click on Shortcut and add --disable-gpu to Target as per screen shot.