Fast Start-Up
In our web trotting we found that Windows 10 uses Fast Start-Up which is on by default. It works similar to hibernation so when we shut down the computer, it tries to remember hardware settings and recall them upon next boot. In its attempt to save these settings, it drags out the shut down process.
While fast start-up is supposed to assist performance, the time it wasted pretending to be smart during shutdown sometimes plays havoc with wireless devices so they fail to register on startup. Instead of a “fast start-up” we end up with a faulty one.
We grew up with Windows going back as far as Windows 3.1 and remember hating the sleep and hibernation modes from the moment they rolled out. Clean boot is always the way.
Clean boots for reliability over the flaky Fast Startup, which is unnecessary since our gear (fast RAM and SSD) is upgraded to start fast.
Getting Rid of Fast Start-Up
→ Control Panel
→ Power Options
→ Choose What the Power Buttons Do
→ Change settings that are currently unavailable
There we disable “turn on fast start-up”, and both “sleep” and “hibernate” while we’re at it.
Happy days.