is a global option that specifies which notebooks should be automatically opened when the Wolfram System is started.


AutoOpenNotebooks
is a global option that specifies which notebooks should be automatically opened when the Wolfram System is started.
Details

- AutoOpenNotebooks is set to a list of notebook names. For a notebook in the list to be opened on startup, it must be located in one of the directories specified by the global option PrivatePaths->"TextResources".
- The default setting, AutoOpenNotebooks->{"MathematicaNavigator.nb"}, specifies the startup palette that appears on the screen when you start the Wolfram System for the first time.
See Also
History
Introduced in 2004 (5.1)
Text
Wolfram Research (2004), AutoOpenNotebooks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AutoOpenNotebooks.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2004. "AutoOpenNotebooks." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AutoOpenNotebooks.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2004). AutoOpenNotebooks. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AutoOpenNotebooks.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_autoopennotebooks, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AutoOpenNotebooks}", year="2004", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AutoOpenNotebooks.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_autoopennotebooks, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AutoOpenNotebooks}, year={2004}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AutoOpenNotebooks.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-August-2025]}