How to restore session in Microsoft Edge

Question

I am using Windows 10 operating system, and yesterday I have installed the latest update version 1511. Everything is working ok, except I lost all open tabs in Microsoft Edge br

Answer 1

IDEA: Before you try any of this, and if you happen to have opened a new browser session, before you close it, go to history and see if you can find the previous pages that you lost. If you have more than 10 pages and if they are buried in the history of your browser, then it is better to try any of the methods described above.

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This is what I did. My browser session crashed. I was forced to close the session via the Task Manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC). Then:

1. I went to the ACTIVE folder and I made a copy of this folder into another location, say Documents.
2. Now I opened EDGE and I opened as many tabs as files in your ACTIVE folder (minus 1 --> don't count the recovery file)
3. Now do not close edge by clicking at the x in the window. Instead, close it via Task Manager
4. Now, the tedious part is to copy the file name of this NEW ACTIVE folder into the OLD ACTIVE folder. Do this file per file.
5. You also need to copy the recovery...xyz.dat file from the NEW folder into the OLD folder

Make sure the fresh renamed files from the OLD ACTIVE folder are moved to the ACTIVE folder. Start EDGE and it should work.

Tested on Windows 10 x64.

REMARK: I had [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Recovery] "AutoRecover"=dword:00000000 setup and settings>> load previous page in the EDGE browser and that did not have any effect.

REMARK: The problem I was having while recovering my files is that every time I close EDGE by hitting the x is that it was erasing all the files in my ACTIVE folder. By closing EDGE by force, I was able to apply this trick. -Kf