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Don't reopen Explorer windows after restart

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Sets PersistBrowsers = 0 under Explorer\Advanced. Stops Windows from re-launching all the File Explorer windows you had open before a restart/sign-out. You get a clean desktop on login instead of a flurry of folders reopening (each of which costs disk/CPU at the worst possible time — startup). Reversible.

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