<p>To make it harder to relate your different transactions, you should use a different receiving address for each transaction. <span class="application">Electrum</span> automatically generates new addresses for you to use.</p>
Turn on the [[Electrum Bitcoin Wallet|persistent_storage/configure#electrum]] feature of the Persistent Storage to store your bitcoin wallet and preferences across separate working sessions.
If <span class="application">Electrum</span> fails to start or stays minimized, maybe your <span class="application">Electrum</span> folder is corrupted.