Arduino IDE preference setting

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Impossible to load last sketch at startup

I've always found the auto-loading of the last used sketch to be extremely annoying and found this while looking for a way to disable it. Since I normally leave the software open until I'm finished and then when I load it I want it to open up with a new blank sketch. Is it possible to change the default behavior? The Arduino has done a lot of great things but man the software is awful.

If your solution involves getting the IDE to open the new sketch on startup, you can change the contents of that new sketch by editing the file examples/01.Basics/BareMinimum/BareMininum.ino under the Arduino IDE installation folder.