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Launching a new copy of NVDA should exit running version and start launched version. #8320

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(Updated with command line information from Leonard).

This is a minor inconsistency, but still worth recording:

With any version of NVDA running, pressing control+alt+n restarts the installed copy of NVDA. That works fine.

If a desktop or start menu shortcut to NVDA is instead activated, or a copy of NVDA run from File Explorer, NVDA does not restart. NVDA does have a command line parameter -r to replace or quit the running version of NVDA and start this one (Thanks Leonard for reminding me of that!)

See https://www.nvaccess.org/files/nvda/documentation/userGuide.html#CommandLineOptions for more information on the command line options.

I would like to then propose that we make the -r parameter implicit and adopt that behaviour by default, and perhaps in its place add a parameter to check and return a value if there is already a copy of NVDA running to enable both functionalities going forward.

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