CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Trade only with money you can afford to lose.
Open Exness Account →

What Stays on the Machine, and What Is Asked for Again — Lesotho

Part of a working setup is written to the machine and comes back on its own; part of it is asked for again every time. Which is which is what makes one computer feel ready and another feel new.

Open Exness Account →

100+ instruments  ·  Founded 2008

A terminal that opens ready to work is one whose machine kept four things: the account it was last connected to, the arrangement of windows, the saved templates and the bars already fetched. All four are files, all four survive closing the program, and none of them survives removing it. Everything else is requested again on the way in, which is why the same account feels prepared on one computer and new on another.

What happens between closing and opening

Nothing here is a setting to turn on. It is the ordinary sequence a terminal follows, and knowing it explains why one machine opens ready to work and another opens blank.

  1. Closing the terminal writes the current arrangement of windows into a profile stored on the machine.
  2. Opening it again restores that arrangement first, then reconnects to the account that was in use when it closed.
  3. Anything the machine could not keep — an expired session, a file removed by a cleanup tool — is requested again at that point.
  4. On a computer shared between several people, each of them has a separate copy of all of it, so one person's arrangement is not the other's.

What a reinstallation does not carry over

A reinstallation is not a restart. Window profiles, saved templates and the bars accumulated for each symbol are files inside the installation, so removing it removes them, and the first session afterwards is as bare as the very first one. The account itself is unaffected — it is held elsewhere — which is exactly why the loss is easy to underestimate until the workspace has to be rebuilt by hand.

Open Exness Account →

Why a low-memory machine behaves differently

Restoring a profile means opening every window in it at once, before the machine has settled. A computer with little memory to spare spends its first minute doing that and can look broken while it is happening, even though nothing is wrong and the same arrangement runs fine an hour later.

The fix is to make the stored arrangement smaller rather than to stop storing one. A profile of three windows opens immediately and the rest can be added by hand on the days they are needed, which converts a slow start into a choice.

A shared computer keeps several copies of everything

Where more than one person signs into the same machine, each of them has their own copy of the profile, the templates and the accumulated bars. Nothing is shared between them, so an arrangement built by one person is simply absent for the next, and a symbol filled in on one side of the machine is unfetched on the other.

That is worth knowing before concluding that something has been lost. Usually it has not been lost — it belongs to a different copy of the same installation.

What survives what

WhatSurvives closing the programSurvives removing the installation
The account the terminal was last connected toYes, it reconnects on openingNo, it is added again
The arrangement of open windowsYes, through the stored profileNo, unless the profile was copied out first
Saved chart templatesYesNo, they are files inside the installation
Bars already fetched for a symbolYes, they sit on diskNo, the fetching starts again
An expired sessionNo, it is requested again on the way inNo
Open positions and pending ordersYes, they are held on the broker sideYes, they are held on the broker side

The last row is the one worth remembering: nothing on this list holds a position, so losing all of it costs time rather than exposure.

Frequently asked questions

What comes back on its own when the terminal is reopened?
The account it was last connected to, the arrangement of windows stored in the profile, saved templates and the bars already fetched. All four are files on the machine.
What is asked for again every time?
Anything the machine could not keep — most often a session that has expired, or a file a cleanup tool removed since the last time.
Does a reinstallation keep any of it?
No. Profiles, templates and accumulated bars are files inside the installation, so removing it removes them and the next session starts bare.
Why is the first minute after opening the slowest?
Because a restored profile opens every window in it at once. A smaller stored arrangement removes the problem without giving up the arrangement itself.
Is anything shared between two people using the same computer?
No. Each has a separate copy of the profile, templates and fetched bars, so one person's workspace is simply absent for the other.
Can any of this affect an open position?
No. Positions and pending orders are held on the broker side, so losing a workspace costs the time to rebuild it and nothing else.

Reviews

What traders say about Exness account access:

★★★★☆
Overall Great App. Overall it’s a great App, have some minor issues with login and connectivity sometimes but works like a charm so far
— Saqib_G2026-05-25
★★★★☆
Signing in problem. I logged out of my Exness account and I can’t sign in again and it’s been about a week now please . Kindly please have a look at my account for me please
— Skergg2024-03-31
★☆☆☆☆
Poor App. The app sometimes doesn't work in the critical sensitive trading moments, requies login again n again, lags & unresponsive with missing sometimes some data
— kingarts3132026-04-20

Related Exness pages