Desktop State - Save?

Something I remember from the early days of Windows 98 was that the state of
the desktop (open windows) was restored when booting Windows. For example,
if you shutdown or rebooted with Control Panel open, or any other folder,
that or those folder(s) would be where they were when you left off.

When doing the initial installs of Windows 2000, this was the case once
again. Of course, one has to go through so many updates, patches and add-on
installs to make Win2k current (to say nothing of safe!). I found in all
cases here that by the time I was done updating everything, the state-saving
as such had stopped happening.

I'm calling this "Save State" because I remember the terminology from the
pre-Windows days. My apologies if it's called something else. So
where'd it go? And is that a fix, or a bug, er, anomaly, um, feature? And
how does one re-enable it?

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Steve Goodman
* EarthLight Productions
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