The best way to shutdown your Windows system is to restart it, and then when its booting, shut it off right there. Restart actually restarts the system afresh, and for some profound reason, Windows took the hibernate shutdown feature introduced in Windows 8 and just completely removed the traditional shutdown way, how the shutdown button always worked upto 8.1 version. Windows 10 and 11 never shutdown with the shutdown, but with restart, as much of a circus as it sounds.
Yes, fast startup, forgot the name. But it is insane how its hidden off behind a commandline, what used to be a tickbox behind admin password inside of Power Options.
Edit: apparently the tickbox is still there, my bad
The fast start up option actually should still be under power options, though not really intuitive or easy to find.
Look for the part that says “Choose what the power buttons do” and it should be there.
I tend to just turn hibernation all off because I don’t really use it, and I’d typically rather have the space hiberfil.sys takes up.
The best way to shutdown your Windows system is to restart it, and then when its booting, shut it off right there. Restart actually restarts the system afresh, and for some profound reason, Windows took the hibernate shutdown feature introduced in Windows 8 and just completely removed the traditional shutdown way, how the shutdown button always worked upto 8.1 version. Windows 10 and 11 never shutdown with the shutdown, but with restart, as much of a circus as it sounds.
Can’t you just disable fastboot?
Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Power Options>System Settings Uncheck “turn on fast startup”
Sure, until the next update, when they forcibly enable it again.
Gross
If you want to turn off hibernation for good you can do so with an elevated prompt.
powercfg.exe /hibernate offOtherwise you want to turn off fast start up, which should avoid the hibernation/shutdown you’re talking about.
Yes, fast startup, forgot the name. But it is insane how its hidden off behind a commandline, what used to be a tickbox behind admin password inside of Power Options.
Edit: apparently the tickbox is still there, my bad
The fast start up option actually should still be under power options, though not really intuitive or easy to find.
Look for the part that says “Choose what the power buttons do” and it should be there.
I tend to just turn hibernation all off because I don’t really use it, and I’d typically rather have the space hiberfil.sys takes up.
It is there. That is weird, how did I miss this all this time?
i heard you gotta wait until it tells you it’s safe to turn off your computer.
If you hold the shift key when you press “shut down” it’ll fully shut down.