XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11
From: nospam@needed.invalid
On Mon, 11/17/2025 6:41 PM, Windows Elf wrote:
> On 17/11/2025 10:14, Anssi Saari wrote:
>> VanguardLH writes:
>>
>>> Anssi Saari wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dan Purgert writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Win10, 11 have that "FastBoot" thing that mucks with hardware releases
>>>>> on "reboot" (win basically goes into hibernate).
>>>>
>>>> No. Reboot is always reboot, Windows would be completely useless without
>>>> that. "FastBoot" aka fast startup happens when shutting down if not
>>>> disabled. And it's hibernate without hibernating apps so fairly useless.
>>>
>>> Actually Fast Starup is a full hibernate (all memory copied into the
>>> hyberfil.sys file).
>>
>> Source? For example here:
>> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/weg/d
livering-a-great-startup-and-shutdown-experience
>> "Starting with Windows 8.x, the default shutdown and restart scenario
>> has been updated and named fast startup. Fast startup begins with the
>> shutdown process and includes writing data to disk similar to the
>> hibernate process. A key difference is that all user sessions (Session
>> 1) are logged off and the remaining information is written to the
>> hiberfile."
>>
>> When user sessions are logged off, all user apps die and so aren't
>> written to the hiberfil.sys, which, as I stated, makes this "fast
>> startup" fairly useless.
>
> If you think hiberfil.sys is useless, why not disable it? Use this
> command as an administrator:
>
> powercfg.exe /hibernate off.
>
> Restart the machine and see if it makes any difference.
>
> Personally, I find fast startup useful on an old machine, but some
> people prefer to start afresh while they make a cup of coffee!
Absolutely nothing uses Fast Startup in the room here.
If my machine had ECC, I would not mind trying it.
For non-ECC machines, the lowest risk option is normal boot procedures.
On my old machines, they go slow, as expected.
Paul
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