Hi Product Hunt! Maker here. Chauffeur started from a problem I hit every single day: my "working context" was spread across a dozen windows — the right Excel sheets, the right VS Code project, a handful of Notepad++ files, the browser tabs I actually needed. The moment I rebooted or switched tasks, all of it was gone, and rebuilding it by hand cost me 10–15 minutes several times a day. So I built Chauffeur: a small background service on Windows that captures the working state of your apps and restores it in one click. What it does today: • Saves open files, tabs and projects across Excel, VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Chrome/Edge • Restores a whole named context on demand — perfect for jumping between projects or clients • Runs as a local background service with a small desktop app + CLI What it is NOT: there's no cloud, no account, no telemetry. Everything stays on your machine — that was a hard design requirement from day one. 👉 There's a free trial so you can try it on your own real workflow (link above). I'd genuinely love your feedback: which apps would you want Chauffeur to support next? I'll be here all day replying to every comment. Thanks for taking a look 🙏

Chauffeur

Restore your entire workspace in one click — 100% local

Restore your entire workspace in one click — 100% local