I use Programming Lab (standard license), Desktop on Win10. All current versions. Name it PLD down from here. It drives me crazy.

Apart from some severe bugs like freezing (no editor insertion point, no more cell evaluating) just the startup procedure drives me mad:

When I start PLD, it opens with some useless "Wolfram Programming Lab"-Window, from where I could learn something if I had not done this long ago. There is no file menu or the like, but just one selection "Try It Yourself" which should bring me into my SW-IDE. But this just starts a trivial, useless notebook named "Get Started" where I could learn how to add "2+2", if I needed that.

Fortunately this "GetStarted"-notebook has a file menu from where I can then open the notebook(s) I am actually working on. Manually, one after the other. Every day, many times (since PLD likes to freeze and needs a restart). Then I have to (manually) close those two useless startup windows. It's ridiculous. In particular for a system like Wolfram which claims to be highly elevated, intelligent and professional.

What I would need: An organization into "projects". Each project consisting of one or more notebooks, files, images, what so ever. When starting PLD, it should open or make available my last or a selectable project.

Of course I have been searching for options to change the PLD-startup. But I could not find them.