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Updated note: The version of Microsoft Edge I experienced this problem with predates the switch to the Chromium under-pinnings, wherein this problem does not exist.
EG ControlShiftT should work for you.

I've closed a Microsoft Edge (25.10586.0.0) window that had multiple old tabs on it restored over multiple starts, while unawares that I'd minimized a single window with nothing important on it. Now if I quit edge, when I next start it with "reopen last session" it will only open the unimportant window and not the important (recently closed one).

I can try controlshiftT but it reopens only tabs specific to the remaining window's history. If I look in the history, which I cannot search, I am amazed to not see very many of the tabs I just closed. EG a Docker image for Apache Drill, some Github pages etc.

Is reopening the last closed window with all it's tabs a missing feature? This is infuriating. Is there a work around?

dlamblin
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The same thing just happened to me (I had multiple windows open and accidentally closed one that had several important tabs). In a panic I searched for a way to restore the closed window, and came across this very question. From the other answer and the comments, my heart began to sink. But then I realized that they are outdated!

This is how it works in recent versions of Edge (which are based on Chromium). If you close a window containing more than 1 tab, and if you have yet to open any new tab in any other window, then you can reopen the closed window either by right-clicking on the tab area in any of the remaining open windows, or by using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + T as indicated in the picture below.

Reopen closed window

pre-kidney
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You can now do this using the new Microsoft Edge feature that ships with the Creators Update in Windows 10, it's called "Set these tabs aside".

While it's not as easy as simply clicking Exit on Chrome or Firefox you can indeed have many New Browser instances open, reboot and click Tabs You've Set Aside and successfully restore your previous browser state.

Edit:

Now with the Chromium version of Edge out, this issue is now fixed.

Virgil Shelton
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This is now possible to do which is fantastic!

  1. Right-click at the top of your window and from the context menu select reopen Closed Window

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  1. When the window appears right click and select restore window
  2. Hey presto you have recovered from the so easy-to-do accidental window closing when you have other windows open too - and who doesn't these days!!
boardtc
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Just happened to me as well but I had no "Reopen closed window" option available since I have opened new tabs already. Or maybe because of the situation that I had several "Workspaces" windows opened but accidentally closed my main (non-Workspace) window.

This is how I got it back:

  1. Open a new tab in any of the Workspace windows.
  2. Drag the new tab out of it, in order to create a non-Workspace window.
  3. There you can go to the History and find a collapsed entry that contains all your closed main windows' tabs.
  4. Click on the collapsed entry.

All the tabs (incl. groups) are back.

MA-Maddin
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