Lars Bruun-Hansen created NETBEANS-5320:
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Summary: Windows Launcher - Support WER (auto restore)
Key: NETBEANS-5320
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-5320
Project: NetBeans
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Lars Bruun-Hansen
Windows has a (fairly) new function which allows an application to
automatically restart itself if it encounters an error or if the system was
automatically re-booted due to software updates.
I've noticed that on my Windows system applications such as MS Office, Firefox
and Notepad conveniently will automatically restart after a Windows Update
forced re-boot and be restored exactly to where they were. Nice! NetBeans IDE
doesn't do this. (nor does my Mozilla Thunderbird application for that matter).
For this to work the application, in this case the *Windows IDE Launcher* or
the *Windows Platform Launcher*, must [register for
restart|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/recovery/registering-for-application-restart]
by calling the [Win32 RegisterApplication Restart
function|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/nf-winbase-registerapplicationrestart].
It looks fairly trivial to me.
Note that this Windows feature also has some tricks for _recovery_ (saving and
restoring of state) but we can skip that part as NetBeans does this by itself.
In other words: Registering for recovery is not necessary for NetBeans.
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