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Questions tagged [win10-fast-startup]

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Does Windows 10 Fast Startup feature drain battery while laptop is turned off?

I'm wondering if leaving this feature enabled drains the laptop battery while it's turned off. I've searched online already but haven't found a conclusive answer.
Chef Tony
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How does Windows locking down the drive for Fast Startup work?

Microsoft Windows has a feature where, when shutting down, it will actually go into a state of hibernation instead of fully shutting down, to boot faster in the future (though this can be disabled). This preserves the state of the kernel and system…
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How do you access the BIOS if your machine boots too fast for you to enter it, but your OS is broken?

This is purely hypothetical and technically OS agnostic, but I usually see issues like this suffered by Windows 10 users who have got truly fast machines and have turned on Fast Boot. The process goes something like this: You have a truly fast…
J. Mini
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Windows shutdown not working after cloning disk

I have a recurring issue that prevents windows from being shut down, when the partition is cloned or migrated to another disk. In this situation, clicking on shut down from start menu causes Windows to log out, and reboot back to the login screen. …
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PC says "Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to unlock" upon restart

I noticed that my PC has been logging me in instantly upon reboot. I wouldn't get any verbose messages like I'm used to when logging in, I would just hit ENTER and immediately my desktop would appear. I discovered that the following setting was…
InterLinked
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How do I disable fast startup using safe mode?

My laptop turns black, displaying only the cursor as soon as it gets to the point where it shows the Windows login. When I did my research to fix the issue, I saw that disabling fast startup may resolve it (the problem actually occurred the day I…
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Why has fast startup on Windows 11 suddenly stopped working?

Fast startup suddenly stopped working on my pc. It is enabled but not works. I tried SFC DISM CHKDSK commands and clean boot and clear prefetch folder. Updating all drivers and BIOS and enable/disable fast startup and hibernate from powercfg. The…
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Windows fast startup/hybrid shutdown - DHCP request

I had a problem by months and I couldn't fix it. Several days checking logs, packet capture, etc. My cenario: 2 - pfSense in HA with DHCP relay 2 - DHCP server with hot-stanby mode Part of my users with problem to request DHCP IP during startup,…
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Windows 10 fast startup locking non-OS physical HDD

I've a system containing HDD and SSD, the SSD has one partition with Windows 10 installed on it, and the HDD has two partitions, the first is an Ubuntu partition and the second is a shared data partition. I know that Windows fast startup will make…
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How to do the same as clicking Start, Power, Shut down in Windows 10/11?

By default in Windows 10 and 11 if you click Start, then the power icon then Shut down Windows does a "hybrid shutdown" that prepares the computer for a fast start-up. When you next start Windows loads your session from disk so effectively you are…
John Rennie
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Shutdown vs Hibernate boot speed

I want to know is booting after hibernation faster or booting after shutting down in windows 10. (Fast startup enabled). I know that windows 10 fast startup is similar to hibernation but I want to know would hibernation be even faster? (Hibernating…
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Hibernate/(Shutdown with fast-startup) in windows 10 doesn't work. Only complete shutdown/restart works

I recently updated my windows 10 to v2004. But now whenever I try to shutdown(with fast startup enabled) or hibernate, the screen goes blank and goes to the lock screen. (I don't want to disable fast startup or do force shutdown everytime or…
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How do you disable startup programs that only exist in the Task Manager Startup tab via command line?

Searching the web yields plenty of results for Get/Set-Service, wmic and sc and plenty of GUI options with msconfig and Task Manager itself, but I need to setup an unattended install of a Windows machine, and therefore need to disable these startup…
Johnny
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When I hibernate or turn off/on my Windows 10 PC, the NIC stops working

As the title states, every time I turn on my PC (or wake it up) I won't be able to connect to the Internet. I have had this problem for quite some time and the only solution I have found so far is to disable and enable again the hardware component…
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Is it possible to exclude specific partitions from Windows's Fast Startup?

I have three hard drives, one for Windows, one for Linux, and one that - ideally - would be shared, alas, disabling Fast Startup very significantly slows down the booting process. I know it is not likely to be possible, but if anyone knows for sure,…
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