Another reason to disable Fast startup, is when you dual boot into another OS (Linux, etc.) and want to mount a shared drive (e.g. D:\). Fast startup doesn't cleanly unmount your drives because there might be write operations still in memory when you shut down. This causes your other OS to only be able to mount your shared drive in read-only mode. If you don't dual boot, fast startup is mostly harmless (contrary to popular belief on youtube). You can always restart if you experience problems. But it doesn't hurt to disable it, either.
@@et_phonehome_2822 There's an option in the setting of most browsers that deletes cookies and website data when closing the browser. If you uncheck it you can restore the previous sitting after restarting your browser. Just look it up how it works on your browser. Apps should stay closed unless they autostart with your system and if they keep any data depends on the app.
@@et_phonehome_2822no. I recently turned off my laptop while having like 6 Edge windows open, hoping that when I turned my laptop back on and reopened Edge, it would show the “Restore” button which it did :D. If you don’t want to risk it, I’d recommend saving all your open tabs in a collection.
@@solarsynapse If there's an option like this, I'm sure that I've already deactivated it, because it's part of my installation routine to go through all of the settings and get rid of everything I don't like.
When you select "Shut Down," Windows logs off all users and closes programs, but instead of completely shutting down the kernel session, it saves it to a file (similar to hibernation). This allows for faster boot times when you turn the PC back on.
Fast Startup is useless these days. I boot from a SATA SSD, and my system boots completely (including logging in) in under a minute with Fast Startup turned off. If that’s too slow for you, you need to learn patience.
I use Hybrid Sleep, and my system boots in a second or two, with all the running apps. "Saving" disk space for hibernation file is useless these days. Most likely, someone doesn't value their time, rather than space.
@ Do you actually *need* your computer to be ready to go in a second or two? Probably not. How often do you actually reboot it? I do value my time, but I also expect my things to do what I tell them to do. “Shut down” should do exactly that. If I want to use hibernate or sleep, I’d pick hibernate or sleep.
@@StolenJoker84 I'm not arguing that the Fast Startup is a bad thing. Luckily, on my PC, this option is not available. And to the question, "Do you really need your computer to be ready to go in a second", the answer is YES, I do. I reboot it only when change hardware/software.
I only turn on my windows pc every 3 months or so for specific tasks. The rest of the I use my phone or android tablet. Every time I do use it I am reminded of how terrible Windows is.
I did not know about changing that option in Control Panel - it is very helpful. Thank you! You can also do this in an administrator command prompt: type powercfg -h off. This turns off the hibernation setting.
Hibernation is not the same thing as the fast startup. Hibernation is fine. What is very (un)helpful is to (c)lose (lose=close) all your apps and windows. It does not prevent you for turning the PC off when you need to turn it off.
@@elevensevenfortyeight Wrong, fast startup is a type of hibernation, as it simply hibernates your kernel and drivers without hibernating your user session. Therefore, fast startup needs the hibernation file to work, and turning off hibernation with powercfg also disables fast startup. If you think that hibernation is fine, why would you think that fast startup is bad? Makes no sense.
@@elevensevenfortyeight Then why are there 35 occurrences of the word "hibernate" (including "hibernation") in the official explanation of what Fast Startup is from Microsoft? See their page titled "Delivering a great startup and shutdown experience". 😉 Btw, I'm in IT and flipping what everyone knows as a clean boot on its head by sacrificing stability for the illusion of booting faster isn't what I'd call "a great experience". Throughout my career long before the advent of "Fast Startup", I've gotten zero calls about boot speed, but countless ones stating they shut their computer down and turned it back on and it didn't fix the problem. Thanks Microsoft! 👎🙄
@@looks-suspicious Makes perfect sense. Hibernate saves all state. Restart clears all state. Fast startup Shut Down is a bastard option in the middle that doesn't save all state *or* clear all state and clean boot. So it might be 'a type of partial hibernation' but it's not the type that anybody wants. You either want your state restored or you want it cleared.
@@rascta Sure, that's a valid opinion, but claiming that nobody wants kernel hibernation is a stretch. I mean, is there any real world data to suggest that it's truly problematic and that it will cause regular system instabilities? Long kernel uptimes per se are hardly an argument for possible problems, as this is completely normal in the server space.
I didn't even know that the configuration panel could be expanded beyond the few options that I had. So for that, I thank you. However my power off settings are already correct, even the ones in the top tell it to shutdown completely. So maybe I've heard this trick before, I just don't know anymore.
One more thing, if fast boot / hibernation is turned on, there's a huge file called hiberfil sys sitting in the C: drive. So by turning off the feature you also save lots of disk space.
The easiest way to turn all that crap off in one single move is to start command prompt as admin, then write and issue "powercfg -h off". This will disable hibernation, free up allocated space on your SSD dedicated to hibernation and it will also completely remove the fast startup option, because this feature relies on hibernation being active. I do this on every new win install for as long as I remember.
I saw this thumbnail and thought to myself, HMMMMMM, maybe I should also never turn off my car.... I'll just let it run through the night and when I get up to go to work(Unless the CO kills me as I sleep) I will just get in and go. In fact, I'll keep my stove lit, the water running, the lights on as well as my TV, and I will never have to worry about pressing any buttons, waiting for warm water, looking for the light switch in the dark or making my eggs in the morning. GEEZ WHAT A GENIUS YOU ARE...
The noise of all the fans requires I shut it down, that and it only gets used maybe twice a year. The Mac is quiet, more reliable, and doesn’t send all my personal data to Microsoft. Have fun
This alone doesn't work! If you have the quickstart enabled, your PC creates a file to reinstate everything when you restart - including any bugs or errors. You need to switch off quickstart even if, like me, you have a PC with a wall power switch.
Good tip I knew of a long time ago and forgot of. Thanks. Won't solve my infinite problems on different PCs having Windows "eternal sleep" occasionally but definitely worth doing. 😄
I always have my PC plugged into a power strip. After shutting the PC off I always turn off the power strip. If you don't have a power strip then just unplug the power cord from the wall. ;)
This will only save you energy, it won't terminate the running system processes because they are saved to your HDD/SSD (which fortunately doesn't get deleted when you unplug the power cord, but this also means that the state of your windows processes will resume from disk the next time you boot your computer)
"If you don't have a power strip then just unplug the power cord from the wall." Or simply turn it off at the wall, if you live in a place that sensibly has switches on the wall sockets!
@@PJRayment That's the thing here in America. Overseas, they have sockets, etc. with switches to shut the power off there. Here in America, a lot of the electric companies fight against us from using them because they are always on and keep checking of something is turned on or not which uses more electricity and costing us more money!
I have actually never shut down any laptop I ever had, neither with Win 7 (oh, those good old days...) nor with the actual Win 11. I just fold it down, and it merely goes to sleep. Much easier to just wake it up the next morning than to have to wait for the system to start again.
Old guy here (boomer via generation and been in a USN Submarine). Most people my age don't use their computer on regular basis. I use mine between 4-12+ times per month ... So will be leaving my old computer off between uses.
@looks-suspicious This video is misleading. Shutdown does shut down the computer. It's not "sleeping" except in the sense that it might have saved some state to the drive/ssd. Switching off at the wall turns the power off, but nothing else has changed or lost because the system was shut down already. I've been shutting down Windows and switching off at the wall for 25 years without a problem.
Thank you that was helpfull in explaining why my computer was acting slow as if lagging and would start acting strangely when trying to open browser windows of course the technicians I sent it to didn't tell me any of that when they "repaired" it.
Thanks for your Video! Your voice Sounds Like you've been working as a Pilot... I can almost Imagine you telling: Ladies and Gentleman, WE are now approaching the Mainboards Socket, please avoid any turbulences while installing the processor unit. WE are Not expecting temperature above 80 degrees as IT May cause system failure. WE Wish you a nice day and are hoping to See you soon again.
Good info droog! I usually use my power button to shut down my lap top or desk top as they are all soft powered running Win10. I am guessing this too does not shut down the OS completely? Desk top doesn't matter I guess as I shut the power to it OFF after shut down so the OS will have to restart next time, but lap top always has some power on to work!
I am running Win11 and I have already made the changes to disable Fast Startup and I shut my computer off every night (and disconnect the power to my cable modem). In the morning when I turn the computer back on, the bootup time might be about 20 seconds (with SSD bootup), and this is not an issue for me. What I do have a problem with is the speed of the Chrome browser, which I use as my default browser (but I also use MS Edge for certain applications, and normally have both running). I have a number of website icons saved on my desktop for sites I frequently use that open using Chrome. It can take anywhere from 20 seconds to about a minute for web pages to fully load and open. Why is this so slow? I am about ready to change my default browser to Edge and stop using Chrome because it is too slow to load. Any suggestions?
@@k.b.tidwell thanks...I tried this, and deleted about 320 MB of cache, also changed some of the other page loading options, it only marginally improved the page loading response.
@@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment I have cable service, my internet plan is nominal 500 Mbps download, when I run the Ookla speed test, I get 177 Mbps down and 1.56 Mbps up....is this good or bad? BTW, I have this browser load speed problem on Chrome but not so much on Edge.
Holding the shift key down and then clicking the shut down button until my lap time shut down worked after checking the fast start button. In both cases, after unchecking the fast start button, the shut down time stayed the same (fast). So I'm not convinced either procedure works for me. Time will tell.
I already turned off the fast startup since it's trying to save my work process into ssd so turning off takes a long time to finally shut down (5 minutes ~~ hundreds of GB). I didn't need that since I had saved what's necessary (result), so disabling it saves a lot of time.
Unless I missed it...and it's possible I did....what is the benefit of turning off the computer this way? i.e. why would the computer slow down, have errors if the kernel is not fully shut down?
click start; type cmd in search which opens command line; then type in command line shutdown /s or /r for reboot. Make sure there is one space after shutdown.
The best thing to do is to turn on hibernation and then instead of telling it to restart or shut down you hibernate when you turn it on it'll almost come up instantly.
No, but it does cause a little more stress for your disk due to writing the hibernation file. This usually isn't a problem though, modern SSDs can take a lot of write cycles until they degrade
Thanks for that brilliant video! I also have a Chromebook Plus,is pressing sign out,on this OS safe enough too use,when closing this laptop? Thank-you in advance.👍
When I go to "choose what the power buttons do", then, under "power and sleep button settings", where it says, "when I press the power button:" in that menu, "shut down" was already selected. Then, under "shutdown settings", I unselected "turn on fast startup", anyway.
I fell asleep, and my Win10 laptop would never reboot again after its battery ran out of power, and it was not shut down or plugged into power. I have never used it since. It was a huge waste, and I think you should be sure to mention that we should not allow this to happen, either.
Many laptops can be reset when this happens by disconnecting the battery and the power cord, and then holding the power button down for 30 seconds or so, like you're trying to turn it on. Certain things inside will reset and allow the laptop to once again start up. More than likely the battery was killed, and they can be reset, though that's technical. You can buy cheap batteries online to get it going again. In the meantime if the reset I described works, you'll be able to use the laptop plugged into an outlet. Good luck and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah!
That's the keyboard shortcut to shutdown laptop /pc 💻 😊... It's same as clicking start button - > Power option - > and then clicking Shutdown.... What he is saying is different thing
My laptop is always on mains power when I switch it off but when I switch it on next day I get the message '28 minutes to full charge'. I always suspected that something could have been running in the background.
So then I have a question if you never get to turn that computer off because I've noticed that the system only restarts instead of booting up is it tracking everything 0:03 you're doing while not utilizing the machine if you dont log out of your internet?
@@OnOffGamers You can find nice games on line and it's free. If you want install it you need a strong computer. With endeavour os you can build a gamer computer.
My new W11 computer only shows "sleep" & "lock" options and not "hibernate" or "turn on fast start up". Does this mean my power button does shut it down? - thanks (Can't you just use the drop down menu to choose shut-down instead of sleep under what the power button does?)
Control panel>power options>what the shut down button does>show all shut down options. Check or uncheck the options listed near the bottom of the page. First one is fast start option. ✓ or uncheck the box. Follow with the rest of the options shown
I have windows 11 laptop (lenovo ideapad gaming 3) and every time it sleeps or it is shut down with shutdown option on start it will make my laptop reset or break something and it made my laptop go into bios recovery mode several times
I sleep to memory only (NO HIBERNATE) , for many years. No need for writing to disk. (I use a UPS, so if there was a power glitch, the PC memory would still be there when power came back) Its VERY fast to sleep and to wake, and everything is right where I left it . This is the ONLY way to fly.
Doesn't save you any space on your C: Drive, unless you reboot into safe mode and delete the hiberfil.sys file, which you can't do when still in Windows, because the system still locks it, even when you have the power option turned off. Saved me 3.5gb
Then you definitely need to enable full shutdown, because not fully turning off your desktop computer and unplugging it from the wall is not good for the computer.@@Eternal_Tech
@ignas6549 Even with Fast Startup enabled, the computer still fully powers down. With Fast Startup enabled or disabled, once the computer powers down, it can safely be disconnected from the electrical outlet. Fast Startup is a feature that just allows the computer to save an image of what is running to the storage medium (SSD or hard drive), and then loading this image when the computer is powered on. If Fast Startup is disabled, then no image of what was running would be saved and when the computer is powered on, each process would have to be started one-by-one. However, in either case, the computer powers down.
Update 24 hrs later. Neither method worked for me. Win 10. Lap top. All updates up to date. On startup see the Dell logo then screen turns black and have to do a hard reset then restart and lost arrow, pointer. Have to restart again. Then works fine. This happens intermittently. I've used Dell support assist. Researched internet. Still have problem. Now I'm thinking it could be the Chinese replacement battery. I've done file checks and with no faulty files found. Will do a hard drive with repair check.
Thanks it was helpful, you would think Microsoft would tell you about these things, but hey ho. I'm normally quite good at guessing a language and where it comes from, but I can't in your case. It sounds a bit like Russian mixed with something else
With Fast Startup enabled, a snapshot of what it is memory is saved to the SSD, and when the computer is powered on, it will use this image instead of loading process by process. Turning off the power strip will have no effect on disabling the Fast Startup feature. However, what was described in this video will disable Fast Startup. Turning off the power strip after the computer shuts down may save a small amount of electricity. However, this could also cause the motherboard battery to prematurely fail, as it will be used to power the CMOS chip on the motherboard, which saves the date, time, and certain hardware settings.
Indeed. Depending on your BOIS shutdown does stop most activity, but leaves your computer sufficiently awake that it can switch on during the night and download updates. To get a stronger shutdown in Windows 10 open a command window and type "shutdown /s". Even then some things remain awake, so for full power off on a desktop you need to switch off the power.
I do this, plus i turn it on at least 15 mins before i want go use it, cos even disabling fast start up doesn't stop my pc taking ages to load folders and programs to start with? Don't get me wrong, its a hell of a lot worse without holding down shift, but has it solved things completely, nope....
Does your computer use a hard drive or SSD? If your computer uses a hard drive, then it is expected to be slow, although having to wait 15 minutes to use it from the time it is powered on is excessive.
@@andyroseby4539 You may want to have Windows check for missing or corrupted files. To do this: 1. Open Command Prompt as an Administrator. 2. Enter the command: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth 3. When the aforementioned command completes, run the command: sfc /scannow If this does not work, you can check for unneeded processes that are starting up and disable them. If this does not solve the problem, you may want to consider reinstalling Windows, after backing up your data.
but, switching off, or rebooting helps to clear the memory and free up ram space,,, and speeds up your computer. Leaving a computer on for weeks and weeks ultimately slows down the machine.
I didn't know someone can have an indian, a russian and a german accent all at the same time.
I turn off my power supply
Yeah, what accent is it? Now I'm curious
Yeah you're right...didn't notice that till you brought it up.🤗
@@hendywijaya3213
Sounds like Italian to me. Listen to Mario talking and try making comparisons.
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Wow. Even turning off my computer was a lie.
Saving documents is too. It waits to save. Very bad. Windows also changes the dates of your files!
The 🇺🇸 way😂
Our whole life was a lie basically. 🤣🤧
Not really.
@@Jakiyyyyy Maybe even our history.
Another reason to disable Fast startup, is when you dual boot into another OS (Linux, etc.) and want to mount a shared drive (e.g. D:\). Fast startup doesn't cleanly unmount your drives because there might be write operations still in memory when you shut down. This causes your other OS to only be able to mount your shared drive in read-only mode.
If you don't dual boot, fast startup is mostly harmless (contrary to popular belief on youtube). You can always restart if you experience problems. But it doesn't hurt to disable it, either.
Fast Startup is always the first thing I deactivate after a new Windows installation. Been doing this for many years, I think even since Windows 7.
Will one lose all those open browser Windows and applications?
@@et_phonehome_2822 There's an option in the setting of most browsers that deletes cookies and website data when closing the browser. If you uncheck it you can restore the previous sitting after restarting your browser. Just look it up how it works on your browser. Apps should stay closed unless they autostart with your system and if they keep any data depends on the app.
Turn off sharing your computer in the background to update other people's computers!
@@et_phonehome_2822no. I recently turned off my laptop while having like 6 Edge windows open, hoping that when I turned my laptop back on and reopened Edge, it would show the “Restore” button which it did :D. If you don’t want to risk it, I’d recommend saving all your open tabs in a collection.
@@solarsynapse If there's an option like this, I'm sure that I've already deactivated it, because it's part of my installation routine to go through all of the settings and get rid of everything I don't like.
When you select "Shut Down," Windows logs off all users and closes programs, but instead of completely shutting down the kernel session, it saves it to a file (similar to hibernation). This allows for faster boot times when you turn the PC back on.
Fast Startup is useless these days. I boot from a SATA SSD, and my system boots completely (including logging in) in under a minute with Fast Startup turned off. If that’s too slow for you, you need to learn patience.
I use Hybrid Sleep, and my system boots in a second or two, with all the running apps. "Saving" disk space for hibernation file is useless these days. Most likely, someone doesn't value their time, rather than space.
@ Do you actually *need* your computer to be ready to go in a second or two? Probably not. How often do you actually reboot it?
I do value my time, but I also expect my things to do what I tell them to do. “Shut down” should do exactly that. If I want to use hibernate or sleep, I’d pick hibernate or sleep.
@@StolenJoker84 I'm not arguing that the Fast Startup is a bad thing. Luckily, on my PC, this option is not available. And to the question, "Do you really need your computer to be ready to go in a second", the answer is YES, I do. I reboot it only when change hardware/software.
1 minute is no problem for oldies, who had to wait 15 minutes to load a ZX Spectrum 48K game from cassette tape ! :D
A minute is pretty slow for an ssd based system.
Best thing to do is NEVER TURN ON your Windows PC. You will then avoid the problem altogether 😂😂😂
Better leaving Windows for Linux,the open source choice 😂
Just never install microshot OS
Total rubbish.
@@johncollins5552 microshot or microsoft ?
I only turn on my windows pc every 3 months or so for specific tasks. The rest of the I use my phone or android tablet.
Every time I do use it I am reminded of how terrible Windows is.
Wrong.
Turn it on once > format the drive > install a proper OS
I did not know about changing that option in Control Panel - it is very helpful. Thank you!
You can also do this in an administrator command prompt: type powercfg -h off. This turns off the hibernation setting.
Hibernation is not the same thing as the fast startup. Hibernation is fine. What is very (un)helpful is to (c)lose (lose=close) all your apps and windows. It does not prevent you for turning the PC off when you need to turn it off.
@@elevensevenfortyeight Wrong, fast startup is a type of hibernation, as it simply hibernates your kernel and drivers without hibernating your user session. Therefore, fast startup needs the hibernation file to work, and turning off hibernation with powercfg also disables fast startup. If you think that hibernation is fine, why would you think that fast startup is bad? Makes no sense.
@@elevensevenfortyeight Then why are there 35 occurrences of the word "hibernate" (including "hibernation") in the official explanation of what Fast Startup is from Microsoft? See their page titled "Delivering a great startup and shutdown experience". 😉
Btw, I'm in IT and flipping what everyone knows as a clean boot on its head by sacrificing stability for the illusion of booting faster isn't what I'd call "a great experience". Throughout my career long before the advent of "Fast Startup", I've gotten zero calls about boot speed, but countless ones stating they shut their computer down and turned it back on and it didn't fix the problem. Thanks Microsoft! 👎🙄
@@looks-suspicious Makes perfect sense. Hibernate saves all state. Restart clears all state. Fast startup Shut Down is a bastard option in the middle that doesn't save all state *or* clear all state and clean boot. So it might be 'a type of partial hibernation' but it's not the type that anybody wants. You either want your state restored or you want it cleared.
@@rascta Sure, that's a valid opinion, but claiming that nobody wants kernel hibernation is a stretch. I mean, is there any real world data to suggest that it's truly problematic and that it will cause regular system instabilities? Long kernel uptimes per se are hardly an argument for possible problems, as this is completely normal in the server space.
Thanks buddy for free advice❤❤❤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤗🤗🤗.
I didn't even know that the configuration panel could be expanded beyond the few options that I had. So for that, I thank you. However my power off settings are already correct, even the ones in the top tell it to shutdown completely. So maybe I've heard this trick before, I just don't know anymore.
Thank you friend for bringing up this wonderful vedio,my laptop is fast now,this is really very helpfull !!
One more thing, if fast boot / hibernation is turned on, there's a huge file called hiberfil sys sitting in the C: drive. So by turning off the feature you also save lots of disk space.
Excellent advice. Thank-you.
Best useful channel on YT
This is an extremely useful and helpful video. Thank you
Thanks for the information.
Thanks much. I'm going to do the shift option that you stated.
The easiest way to turn all that crap off in one single move is to start command prompt as admin, then write and issue "powercfg -h off". This will disable hibernation, free up allocated space on your SSD dedicated to hibernation and it will also completely remove the fast startup option, because this feature relies on hibernation being active. I do this on every new win install for as long as I remember.
@@TheTeflon490 Not recognized as an internal or external command
How about connecting the computer to a power switch that you just flip off then back on when needed. Saves electricity too.
THANK YOU ❤
I saw this thumbnail and thought to myself, HMMMMMM, maybe I should also never turn off my car.... I'll just let it run through the night and when I get up to go to work(Unless the CO kills me as I sleep) I will just get in and go. In fact, I'll keep my stove lit, the water running, the lights on as well as my TV, and I will never have to worry about pressing any buttons, waiting for warm water, looking for the light switch in the dark or making my eggs in the morning. GEEZ WHAT A GENIUS YOU ARE...
@@3rni3PL Ya got that right😁
Excellent. Thank you. Tampa, FL, USA
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I turn off my PC at the wall power switch
Me too.
The noise of all the fans requires I shut it down, that and it only gets used maybe twice a year. The Mac is quiet, more reliable, and doesn’t send all my personal data to Microsoft. Have fun
That's fine a long as you have shut it down first.
@@Chris-5318 Yes I shut it down first then once shut down switch off at wall socket.
This alone doesn't work! If you have the quickstart enabled, your PC creates a file to reinstate everything when you restart - including any bugs or errors. You need to switch off quickstart even if, like me, you have a PC with a wall power switch.
Good tip I knew of a long time ago and forgot of. Thanks. Won't solve my infinite problems on different PCs having Windows "eternal sleep" occasionally but definitely worth doing. 😄
My PC can have uptime for several months, without problems. Restarting only for updates/install software.
Thank You for the advise 👍👍
Thanks mate 👍🏻👍🏻 3:03 start the meat.
I always have my PC plugged into a power strip. After shutting the PC off I always turn off the power strip. If you don't have a power strip then just unplug the power cord from the wall. ;)
This will only save you energy, it won't terminate the running system processes because they are saved to your HDD/SSD (which fortunately doesn't get deleted when you unplug the power cord, but this also means that the state of your windows processes will resume from disk the next time you boot your computer)
@@A._Meroy I forgot to mention that I also use tools like Glary's Utilities to cut things like that off upon shutdown.
@@stephenhill6791 I see. However, in that case cutting off power still won't affect anything else than your power consumption :)
"If you don't have a power strip then just unplug the power cord from the wall."
Or simply turn it off at the wall, if you live in a place that sensibly has switches on the wall sockets!
@@PJRayment That's the thing here in America. Overseas, they have sockets, etc. with switches to shut the power off there. Here in America, a lot of the electric companies fight against us from using them because they are always on and keep checking of something is turned on or not which uses more electricity and costing us more money!
I have actually never shut down any laptop I ever had, neither with Win 7 (oh, those good old days...) nor with the actual Win 11. I just fold it down, and it merely goes to sleep. Much easier to just wake it up the next morning than to have to wait for the system to start again.
Same here! 😊
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Old guy here (boomer via generation and been in a USN Submarine). Most people my age don't use their computer on regular basis. I use mine between 4-12+ times per month ... So will be leaving my old computer off between uses.
Me too. I. Welded on USN hulls. Yes, had to be perfect. I am relearning all this.
@leebornaman5508 I was a Corpsman later NC Officer, 4 Ships 1 boat, 3 Med centers, 2 USMC units. Now learning how to live retired.
Linux is nice for an old computer, m'y channel will interest you 😊
Ok, and how does leaving your computer off relate to this video? Fast startup does not change anything for you.
@looks-suspicious This video is misleading. Shutdown does shut down the computer. It's not "sleeping" except in the sense that it might have saved some state to the drive/ssd. Switching off at the wall turns the power off, but nothing else has changed or lost because the system was shut down already. I've been shutting down Windows and switching off at the wall for 25 years without a problem.
Thank you that was helpfull in explaining why my computer was acting slow as if lagging and would start acting strangely when trying to open browser windows of course the technicians I sent it to didn't tell me any of that when they "repaired" it.
Thanks for your Video! Your voice Sounds Like you've been working as a Pilot... I can almost Imagine you telling: Ladies and Gentleman, WE are now approaching the Mainboards Socket, please avoid any turbulences while installing the processor unit. WE are Not expecting temperature above 80 degrees as IT May cause system failure. WE Wish you a nice day and are hoping to See you soon again.
Good info droog!
I usually use my power button to shut down my lap top or desk top as they are all soft powered running Win10.
I am guessing this too does not shut down the OS completely?
Desk top doesn't matter I guess as I shut the power to it OFF after shut down so the OS will have to restart next time, but lap top always has some power on to work!
Thank you very much. :)
You're the MAN! 😊
Do you do the SAME thing if you Still have Windows 7 ?
THNX, Ah, yes, forgot this one 😊
I am running Win11 and I have already made the changes to disable Fast Startup and I shut my computer off every night (and disconnect the power to my cable modem). In the morning when I turn the computer back on, the bootup time might be about 20 seconds (with SSD bootup), and this is not an issue for me. What I do have a problem with is the speed of the Chrome browser, which I use as my default browser (but I also use MS Edge for certain applications, and normally have both running). I have a number of website icons saved on my desktop for sites I frequently use that open using Chrome. It can take anywhere from 20 seconds to about a minute for web pages to fully load and open. Why is this so slow? I am about ready to change my default browser to Edge and stop using Chrome because it is too slow to load. Any suggestions?
Delete your Chrome web cache and see if that helps. Select "all time" for the extent of deletion.
@@k.b.tidwell thanks...I tried this, and deleted about 320 MB of cache, also changed some of the other page loading options, it only marginally improved the page loading response.
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What is your Internet connection speed?
@@lifeisagift.cherisheverymoment I have cable service, my internet plan is nominal 500 Mbps download, when I run the Ookla speed test, I get 177 Mbps down and 1.56 Mbps up....is this good or bad? BTW, I have this browser load speed problem on Chrome but not so much on Edge.
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“Fast startup” I remember that from a while back cos I turned that dodgy feature off.
a lyrics from a Meat Loaf song had the line "shut down the Sun" so then this all applies to a Sun computer
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Holding the shift key down and then clicking the shut down button until my lap time shut down worked after checking the fast start button. In both cases, after unchecking the fast start button, the shut down time stayed the same (fast). So I'm not convinced either procedure works for me. Time will tell.
I already turned off the fast startup since it's trying to save my work process into ssd so turning off takes a long time to finally shut down (5 minutes ~~ hundreds of GB).
I didn't need that since I had saved what's necessary (result), so disabling it saves a lot of time.
Unless I missed it...and it's possible I did....what is the benefit of turning off the computer this way? i.e. why would the computer slow down, have errors if the kernel is not fully shut down?
I knew about this via work, IT forces you to restart a lot otherwise you don’t get all the updates if you just shut down
Thank you
You can just shift click the shutdown button to do a proper full shutdown or disable fast boot
I think this is no longer the case for latest Windows 11 24H2 update? I can't find the fastboot option there anymore.
click start; type cmd in search which opens command line; then type in command line shutdown /s or /r for reboot. Make sure there is one space after shutdown.
The best thing to do is to turn on hibernation and then instead of telling it to restart or shut down you hibernate when you turn it on it'll almost come up instantly.
Does using hibernnate also damage my pc?
No, but it does cause a little more stress for your disk due to writing the hibernation file. This usually isn't a problem though, modern SSDs can take a lot of write cycles until they degrade
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Thanks for that brilliant video! I also have a Chromebook Plus,is pressing sign out,on this OS safe enough too use,when closing this laptop? Thank-you in advance.👍
When I go to "choose what the power buttons do", then, under "power and sleep button settings", where it says, "when I press the power button:" in that menu, "shut down" was already selected. Then, under "shutdown settings", I unselected "turn on fast startup", anyway.
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I fell asleep, and my Win10 laptop would never reboot again after its battery ran out of power, and it was not shut down or plugged into power. I have never used it since. It was a huge waste, and I think you should be sure to mention that we should not allow this to happen, either.
Many laptops can be reset when this happens by disconnecting the battery and the power cord, and then holding the power button down for 30 seconds or so, like you're trying to turn it on. Certain things inside will reset and allow the laptop to once again start up. More than likely the battery was killed, and they can be reset, though that's technical. You can buy cheap batteries online to get it going again. In the meantime if the reset I described works, you'll be able to use the laptop plugged into an outlet. Good luck and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah!
I was told to hold down the windows key and press X. Then press U and then U again and this is the proper way to shut down a computer in Windows 11
That's the keyboard shortcut to shutdown laptop /pc 💻 😊... It's same as clicking start button - > Power option - > and then clicking Shutdown....
What he is saying is different thing
Basically shut down means hibernate now.
@@yahshua1110 so is the method described in the video the proper way to shut down the computer and not have it go into hibernate mode
Just disable fast startup and so what if the machine takes 5 mins to stablise, go and make a coffee.
My laptop is always on mains power when I switch it off but when I switch it on next day I get the message '28 minutes to full charge'. I always suspected that something could have been running in the background.
Is a version of this available in English? Might be helpful.
So then I have a question if you never get to turn that computer off because I've noticed that the system only restarts instead of booting up is it tracking everything 0:03 you're doing while not utilizing the machine if you dont log out of your internet?
Does shutdown and power removal without Kernel shutdown lead to Memory Errors and bricked computers?
One of the first things I do when I run up a new Windows PC is to turn off "Fast Startup"
If you're running a custom loop or a CLC, leaving it running and walking away is a recipe for disaster.
Thanks.
Should we do this full shut down every night?
Once in a while
Leave Windows for Linux 😅 It 's free !
@@robertnicora7566 How about games on Linux?
@@OnOffGamers You can find nice games on line and it's free. If you want install it you need a strong computer. With endeavour os you can build a gamer computer.
My new W11 computer only shows "sleep" & "lock" options and not "hibernate" or "turn on fast start up". Does this mean my power button does shut it down? - thanks
(Can't you just use the drop down menu to choose shut-down instead of sleep under what the power button does?)
Control panel>power options>what the shut down button does>show all shut down options. Check or uncheck the options listed near the bottom of the page. First one is fast start option. ✓ or uncheck the box. Follow with the rest of the options shown
@ Yes, but mine does not have the fast start up or hibernate options.
@@youmbgtube also on my pc, no "fast start up" option. I will try by pressing the "Shift" key.
Thanks sir.
I have windows 11 laptop (lenovo ideapad gaming 3) and every time it sleeps or it is shut down with shutdown option on start it will make my laptop reset or break something and it made my laptop go into bios recovery mode several times
I sleep to memory only (NO HIBERNATE) , for many years. No need for writing to disk. (I use a UPS, so if there was a power glitch, the PC memory would still be there when power came back) Its VERY fast to sleep and to wake, and everything is right where I left it . This is the ONLY way to fly.
Doesn't save you any space on your C: Drive, unless you reboot into safe mode and delete the hiberfil.sys file, which you can't do when still in Windows, because the system still locks it, even when you have the power option turned off. Saved me 3.5gb
I just create a shortcut on my desktop. In the location box add without the parentheses "shutdown.exe /s /t 0" that completely shutdown the computer
This works best with laptops only, as desktops come with these settings already set up.
In my experience, both laptops and desktop computers have Fast Startup enabled by default.
Then you definitely need to enable full shutdown, because not fully turning off your desktop computer and unplugging it from the wall is not good for the computer.@@Eternal_Tech
@ignas6549 Even with Fast Startup enabled, the computer still fully powers down. With Fast Startup enabled or disabled, once the computer powers down, it can safely be disconnected from the electrical outlet.
Fast Startup is a feature that just allows the computer to save an image of what is running to the storage medium (SSD or hard drive), and then loading this image when the computer is powered on. If Fast Startup is disabled, then no image of what was running would be saved and when the computer is powered on, each process would have to be started one-by-one. However, in either case, the computer powers down.
Like the accent 😃
Do I still turn off fast startup if my computer still has HDD ?
I plug the computer in a few times a year.
I get Snoopy the phone to track everything now.
Update 24 hrs later. Neither method worked for me. Win 10. Lap top. All updates up to date. On startup see the Dell logo then screen turns black and have to do a hard reset then restart and lost arrow, pointer. Have to restart again. Then works fine. This happens intermittently. I've used Dell support assist. Researched internet. Still have problem. Now I'm thinking it could be the Chinese replacement battery. I've done file checks and with no faulty files found. Will do a hard drive with repair check.
Thanks it was helpful, you would think Microsoft would tell you about these things, but hey ho.
I'm normally quite good at guessing a language and where it comes from, but I can't in your case. It sounds a bit like Russian mixed with something else
Garbage.
Bear in mind that for some, when viewing the shutdown settings, all they will see are two options, sleep and lock.
I have a switch on my power strip and I always switch that off after the windows goes out.. No PC can stay awake with no power. Pretty simple.
With Fast Startup enabled, a snapshot of what it is memory is saved to the SSD, and when the computer is powered on, it will use this image instead of loading process by process. Turning off the power strip will have no effect on disabling the Fast Startup feature. However, what was described in this video will disable Fast Startup.
Turning off the power strip after the computer shuts down may save a small amount of electricity. However, this could also cause the motherboard battery to prematurely fail, as it will be used to power the CMOS chip on the motherboard, which saves the date, time, and certain hardware settings.
Indeed. Depending on your BOIS shutdown does stop most activity, but leaves your computer sufficiently awake that it can switch on during the night and download updates.
To get a stronger shutdown in Windows 10 open a command window and type "shutdown /s". Even then some things remain awake, so for full power off on a desktop you need to switch off the power.
I cannot press F1 quickly enough to enter the BIOS without disabling fast start on my laptop first.
thx :)
Turning off MSWindows? Well, MSWindows already turns ME off...
would have been nice to hear this with an understandable dialect.
You have to turn it off to boot from a different drive. I like it to be off when it's off.
To the narrator of this video could you please say "i can't push it any faster captain"
With 128GB of ram there is no slowdown when shooting down. Maybe in India with 8gb or less ram this is a problem indeed.
I do this, plus i turn it on at least 15 mins before i want go use it, cos even disabling fast start up doesn't stop my pc taking ages to load folders and programs to start with?
Don't get me wrong, its a hell of a lot worse without holding down shift, but has it solved things completely, nope....
Does your computer use a hard drive or SSD? If your computer uses a hard drive, then it is expected to be slow, although having to wait 15 minutes to use it from the time it is powered on is excessive.
@Eternal_Tech my windows 8.1 pc starts up quickly and shuts down quickly, and it's an older one
@@andyroseby4539 You may want to have Windows check for missing or corrupted files. To do this:
1. Open Command Prompt as an Administrator.
2. Enter the command: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
3. When the aforementioned command completes, run the command: sfc /scannow
If this does not work, you can check for unneeded processes that are starting up and disable them. If this does not solve the problem, you may want to consider reinstalling Windows, after backing up your data.
I turned off the fast startup in the setting so that shut down is a shut down
but, switching off, or rebooting helps to clear the memory and free up ram space,,, and speeds up your computer.
Leaving a computer on for weeks and weeks ultimately slows down the machine.
Disable hibernation,and shutdown
i don't use "shut down" i use "hibernate" only some times (if need) i use restart....
Pls, how will I turn on my keyboard light when using the PC at night?
Cut the cable
Thankyou
Is this true for Windows 7,?
My last Windows shutdown was 1999
I'm confused if this guy is from India or Russia :(
The accent is definitely that of a man from India, exactly. I hope the answer will help you))
@@clauscelt U r wrong. He is from Russia
He’s from Orkney
@baldy3405 Orkney Islands? 👍