restoreWindows setting ignored by VSCode

[fonnesbeck]

Issue Type: Bug

1. Set "window.restoreWindows": "none" in settings
2. Open folder, and open several files in that folder (unmodified)
3. Quit VSCode
4. Reopen VSCode and open the same folder.

The behavior I am seeing is that all of the files that were open in the previous session are reopened. The restoreWindows setting should have resulted in no files open when I opened the folder in a new session.

If this is the intended behavior, then it is confusing (none should mean none). In any case, there needs to a setting option to allow for this. I have no interest in seeing the all the files from the previous session cluttering up the editor.

VS Code version: Code 1.53.2 (622cb03, 2021-02-11T11:45:54.515Z)
OS version: Darwin x64 20.3.0

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Apple M1 (8 x 2400)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled metal: disabled_off multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: enabled opengl: enabled_on protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	2, 4, 3
Memory (System)	16.00GB (0.08GB free)
Process Argv	. --crash-reporter-id 7dfc0449-544b-4fa5-917f-21b04190e4ed
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Extensions (20)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
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codespaces	Git	0.7.2
vscode-pull-request-github	Git	0.23.1
language-julia-insider	jul	1.1.31
rainbow-csv	mec	1.8.1
mssql	ms-	1.10.1
gather	ms-	2021.1.0
python	ms-	2021.2.582707922
vscode-pylance	ms-	2021.2.4
jupyter	ms-	2021.2.603412351
remote-containers	ms-	0.158.0
remote-ssh	ms-	0.64.0
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.64.0
remote-wsl	ms-	0.53.4
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.20.0
cpptools	ms-	1.2.2
material-icon-theme	PKi	4.5.0
character-count	ste	0.1.1
html-preview-vscode	tht	0.2.5
rmarkdown	Tia	0.0.14

(1 theme extensions excluded)

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[bpasero]

/duplicate #22613

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