Little by little we are getting to know the news that the new versions of Windows 10 will include. Yesterday we learned that Microsoft has moved Windows 10 21H1 to the Release Preview channel, which is the step prior to the public launch for all users where they are dedicated to polishing failures. The update went into beta in February, and is now on the right track to reach all users in the month of May.
21H1 will be a minor update, and the shower of news will come with 21H2. For that version, Microsoft is testing two new features that the system has needed for years. The first one is a new restart mode that allows us to follow exactly where we were in different applications.
Restart and that the apps load where we were using
This mode has been available on Macs for more than 30 years, but Microsoft didn’t start adding it to the system until last year. With this option, applications that have the functionality of remembering where we were going will open with the same content that we had before turning off the computer. Among them are some like Chrome or Photoshop, which reopen tabs or open photos, respectively.
This option can be activated or not in the settings, having to go to the Settings menu every time we want to restart and choose if we want a clean restart or that the applications return to their previous state.
Luckily, that will change soon, as with 21H2, we will have a new restart option . This option will be placed under the classic Suspend, Shutdown and Restart, with the name ” Restart applications after logging in “. If we give it, the computer will restart, and when we start up again, the compatible apps will continue where we were going. This will be quite useful if we are having performance problems on the computer, and we want to restart quickly without losing the work that we have open.
New Windows Tools folder
Microsoft is also including a new system folder that will replace Administrative Tools . The new folder will be called Windows Tools, and it will allow quicker access to some important native tools, such as Command Prompt, Disk Cleanup, PowerShell, Registry Editor, and much more.
In total, there will be about 40 applications, as we can see in the image, and where we will have all the apps in the same place instead of having them scattered through complex folders in the start menu, or having to guess the name to find them and that the Windows search engine please show us.
To access the new folder, we can do it directly from the Start Menu, as well as we can do it from the Control Panel, where it is currently Administrative Tools. If you are more advanced, you can start from Command Prompt or PowerShell by typing “control admintools.
The curious thing about this setting is that it reaches the Control Panel as a novelty, which does not stop losing functionality in favor of the Settings menu, which Microsoft wants to completely replace the Control Panel.