# When I open UE4 it brings me to my project right away but I didn't check the check box for that

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473>\
**Category:** Character & Animation\
**Tags:** launcher, project-settings, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [August 8, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473 "2014-08-08T17:01:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Monkeyface007](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Monkeyface007](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Monkeyface007)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473/1 "2014-08-08T17:01:05Z")

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Please help me get it back to the default menu

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Dorman\_1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jonathan\_Dorman\_1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jonathan_Dorman_1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473/2 "2014-08-08T17:20:48Z")

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Hello Monkeyface007.

If you go to File-\>Open Project in the engine, there should be the checkbox that says ‘Automatically open last project on startup’. If you didn’t check the box, then check it and uncheck it and that should fix it. If it doesn’t, we can try editing the .ini files.

Regards,

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**Author:** ![Monkeyface007](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Monkeyface007](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Monkeyface007)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473/3 "2014-08-08T18:20:21Z")

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thanks, it worked… I did press that button by accident :o

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Dorman\_1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Jonathan\_Dorman\_1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Jonathan_Dorman_1)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473/4 "2014-08-08T18:38:08Z")

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Glad to help!

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**Author:** ![Rasheed\_Hashmi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Rasheed\_Hashmi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Rasheed_Hashmi)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/when-i-open-ue4-it-brings-me-to-my-project-right-away-but-i-didnt-check-the-check-box-for-that/290473/5 "2022-12-20T13:01:07Z")

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Its that easy, thanks.