00:00Hello and welcome to the channel.
00:03Today, we're taking a deep dive into a feature that many of you have likely encountered in your work.
00:09Windows Fast Startup.
00:11It's designed to make boot times quicker, but as IT professionals, we know that speed sometimes comes with training.
00:18So, is Fast Startup a friend or a foe to system stability?
00:24Let's analyze it.
00:25First, let's establish our baseline by defining two fundamental boot processes, the cold boot and hibernation.
00:33A cold boot, or a full shutdown, is the traditional process where the operating system and all applications are completely
00:42closed.
00:43The system RAM is cleared, and upon the next startup, Windows loads everything from scratch.
00:48This is the cleanest way to start a session, ensuring all system drivers and services are freshly in.
00:55It's often our go-to first step for troubleshooting bizarre software behavior.
01:00On the other end of the spectrum is hibernation.
01:03When you hibernate a system, the entire state of your current session, including all open applications and data in RAM,
01:12is written to a file on the hard drive called Hiberfill.
01:17Seize, the computer then powers down completely.
01:20When you turn it back on, it reads this file and restores your session exactly as you left it.
01:26It's convenient, but it's not a fresh start.
01:29This is where Fast Startup comes in.
01:32It's a hybrid approach that tries to give you the best of both worlds.
01:36When you shut down a system with Fast Startup enabled, Windows doesn't perform a full shutdown.
01:41Instead, it closes all your applications and logs you out, just like a cold boot.
01:48But then, it saves the kernel session and system drivers to the hibernation file, similar to hibernation.
01:55So, when you boot up again, Windows doesn't have to reload the entire kernel device drivers and system services.
02:04It just loads them from the Hiberfill.
02:07SEs file into memory and then proceeds to the user lagging screen.
02:12The primary advantage is clear.
02:14A significantly faster boot time.
02:17For inducers, this is a tangible benefit that makes their experience feel much...
02:22But for us, the people who have to maintain these systems, the disadvantages are critical to understand.
02:28The main issue is that because the system drivers are not being freshly loaded on every boot, driver-related problems
02:35can persist across shutdown cycles.
02:37If a driver hangs or enters a bad state, shutting down and starting up again with Fast Startup enabled, might
02:45not resolve the issue.
02:46Because the problematic state gets saved and reloaded.
02:50This can lead to strange hardware behavior, like peripherals not being detected or network adapters failing to connect.
02:57You've probably seen this before.
02:59A user reports a problem.
03:01You tell them to restart, and it does nothing.
03:05But a full restart via the command prompt or by holding shift while clicking restart magically fixes it.
03:10That's often Fast Startup at play.
03:13Another major consideration is for systems that are dual booting with other operating systems.
03:18Like Linux, when Windows uses Fast Startup, it locks the hard disk partition.
03:24This prevents other operating systems from accessing or making changes to that partition, which can lead to data corruption or
03:33an inability to mount the drive.
03:35Furthermore, some Windows updates require a full shutdown to be applied correctly.
03:41With Fast Startup enabled, the system may not perform the necessary full restart, potentially causing update installations to fail or
03:50be incomplete.
03:51So, how do you manage this setting?
03:54It's located in the control panel.
03:56Navigate to control panel, then to power options.
03:59On the left-hand side, click choose what the power buttons do.
04:04You might need to click change settings that are currently unavailable to get administrative access.
04:10Down at the bottom, under shutdown settings, you'll see the checkbox for turn on Fast Startup recommended.
04:16From here, you can enable or disable it.
04:22My recommendation.
04:23For most corporate environments and for any power user or developer machine, I advise disabling Fast Startup.
04:30The marginal time saved on boot is not worth the potential hours lost troubleshooting phantom driver issues or update failures.
04:39System stability and predictability are far more valuable.
04:43For a standard home user who just browses the web and checks email, it's probably fine to leave it on.
04:50But in a professional context, disabling it is often the more prudent choice for long-term reliability.
04:57That's our technical breakdown of Windows Fast Startup.
05:01Understanding how it works is key to making informed decisions for the systems you manage.
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05:12Thanks for watching.
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