Memory when your computer is on you have background processes running you have logs that are being created plus the programs that you work with create temporarily cache files cache files are.
Files that help your software load the information faster so you can think of it like shorthand nodes that your computer takes that help it quickly put together the original data a proper.
Reboot cleans all of that out and gives your windows system a fresh start now what is a proper reboot though is it a restart or a shutdown or it doesn't really matter well it actually.
Matters a lot so intuitively when we see the options shut down and restart we assume that a shutdown is more comprehensive and it kills all the processes well that's not true.
Netflix job now i have to say usually microsoft isn't the best at naming features but here they did a good job so the fast startup became the default in windows it's probably your default.
Too you just didn't pay much attention to it the main purpose of this as the name suggests is to save valuable seconds when you boot up your computer it does this by saving some of the.
System related files and drivers to a hibernation file during the shutdown process then when you turn on your pc again it reads that hibernation file and reloads the content.
Which makes it faster than a restart because when you do a restart all the windows drivers devices and services are initialized from scratch so because a fast startup doesn't load a.
Fresh session some of the problems that it had before you shut down may still continue after you turn on your computer again or your device again now you might have noticed.
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Wondering about a bit when you have to install a windows update it asks you if you want to install updates and shut down or install updates and restart so.Even if you select install and shut down it's going to restart first and then shut down that's because it wants to clean things up with the restart if you want to change your shutdown.
Experience and have a proper shutdown which acts like a restart you can you can turn off fast restart especially if you have a modern laptop or desktop with fast ssd hard drives the.
Reduction of startup time is going to be minimal to disable it press the windows button and type in control panel select that and then in the pane on the left select.
Choose what the power buttons do down here under shutdown settings you're going to see a checkbox for fast startup which will probably be checked if the selections are grayed out click on.
Change settings that are currently unavailable up here then uncheck fast startup save your change and that's it you don't have to worry about a clean reboot anymore because every time you.
Shut down it's going to act like a restart i tried with fast startup on and off and timed the boot up time on my pc and i couldn't see much of a difference but i have a fairly powerful setup so.
Just test it out for yourself and see if it's worth having on or not now this reminds me of my ex-colleague at the office who never shut down or restarted his computer because he didn't want it.
To install updates on his workstation so i guess i had bad experience it usually installed the updates at the end of the month and he was responsible for month end reporting which is anyhow a few.
Stressful days at the beginning of the
Month the last thing you want is to have your system failing so i'm not sure if he's still doing that or if that tactic still works at the office a team might.Now be forcing a restart centrally anyhow while we're on the topic of shutting down if you have windows 11 you don't have to click the windows icon and then move all the way here click the.
Power button and then select what you want instead just right click on the windows icon and select what you want that works in windows 10 too by the way okay so i.
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