Windows 10: Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot

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  1. Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot


    Hello everyone.

    I'm writing this thread because I'm facing a behaviour of my computer I would like to change or fix, but I don't know how I should do any of these. The operating system I use is Windows 10 Home 1709 (Fall Creators Update). The undesired behaviour is that, despire fast boot being enabled in the energy options section of the Control Panel, my PC performs a traditional shutdown when told to shutdown via the Start Menu, which results in an undesirable, slow cold boot when turned back on. However, with previous versions of Windows 10 and even Windows 8/8.1, it worked as expected.

    Am I sure I get the problem right? How do I know it performs a traditional, Windows 7-like shutdown instead of the desired one? I execute a PowerShell script with this code after logging in to check information about the boot process. Its result is 0x0, indicating that the system was started via cold boot. Fast boot, on its hand, would yield a result of 0x1. So I'd say something is wrong in the process.

    Code: Get-WinEvent -ProviderName Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-boot -MaxEvents 10 | Where-Object {$_.id -like "27"} pause[/quote] Hiberation works fine, with no problem whatsoever, so it's not a problem of my hardware (powercfg /a reports that fast boot is available). Event Log doesn't show any error, warning or information I could see regarding any "fallback" during hybrid shutdown. Problems started happening shortly (some weeks?) after installing the Fall Creators Update, but I can't tell for sure if the update was the direct cause of it or not. I've tried the following items in order to fix it, with no success so far:


    • Disabling hibernation (powercfg /h off), restarting the computer and enabling it back again (powercfg /h on).
    • Disabling fast boot, restarting the computer and enabling it back again.
    • sfc /scannow and dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth. Both completed with no corruption detected, and therefore no corruption fixed.
    • Checking any misconfigured Group Policies. There were none I could see responsible for this. I've tried to follow the instructions in here too regarding Group Policies, but I couldn't find any "Require use of fast startup" policy in there. Maybe this could be a problem? I enabled Group Policies in my edition of Windows 10 home by following these instructions, before this issue started happening.
    • Shutting down my PC using alternative means to Start Menu, like Alt + F4 on desktop and shutdown /s /hybrid /f /t 0.
    • Updating Intel(R) Management Engine Interface drivers using the Device manager (searching in Google revealed that this solved some problems related to misbehaving power state transitions for some users). Currently I'm using the driver version 11.0.5.1189, the latest Windows could find.
    • Resetting the configured power plans by running the powercfg -restoredefaultschemes command.

    I'd like to add that, during shutdown, the desktop PC behaves a bit differently than it used to, when fast boot worked. When hibernating or doing hybrid shutdown, my computer turns off the screen some seconds (10 or so) before it turns itself off. With "traditional" shutdown, and now even if I try to use hybrid shutdown, the screen turns off almost at the same time as the computer does. That way I can conclude that Windows doesn't even bother trying to perform an hybrid shutdown, but the question is why? How can I fix it, so I can enjoy reduced boot times again, without having to manually log out and shutdown and tell the other computer users (I am the only administrator in the system, by the way, so they couldn't modify any setting regarding this AFAIK) to do the same? *Huh

    I can provide any additional information, if necessary. Just ask for it.

    Thanks in advance.

    :)
     
    AlexTMjugador, Nov 21, 2017
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  2. Microsoft must review the Fast shutdows (hybrid shutdown) in Windows 10 Takes too much time shutdown

    I heve been watching forums with people who are having problems with Windows 10 fast boot/shutdown ( hybrid shutdown) and I include myself, as a reported behavior seems to be constant, the devices... laptops, desktop PCs remain in a state of shutdown,
    they are hanging on the shutdown process and takes way too much time to shutdown.

    In my case, my desktop PC with Windows 10 Home 64bits and enable fast boot/shutdown (hybrid shutdown) are little faster booting up, but when you shutdown the PC its turn off the screen fast but then stays on a long time with the lights on and fans running.
    the actually shuting down takes really long time.

    But when I disable boot/shutdown fast (hybrid shutdown) PC turns off completely fast
     
    Eduardo Rojas Rodríguez, Nov 21, 2017
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  3. Allan Mej Win User
    Windows won't shut down or sleep after 1709 update (aka, fall creators update)

    Regarding the query about Meltdown and Spectre,
    Microsoft is currently working with AMD and
    Intel
    to patch possible software program holes. Slowed system is a possible side effect of this patch since what we are trying to do is covering hardware flaws using software revisions. We're currently doing our best to reduce these side effects on
    the lowest percentage.

    Now, regarding your issue with PC not shutting down, the known cause of this is the possible errors caused by
    Hybrid Shutdown feature on Windows 10. Hybrid Shutdown
    decreases the PC's shutdown time, same as Fast Startup speeding up the PC's boot time. If Fast Startup is enabled, Hybrid Shutdown is automatically enabled. Since you are encountering shutdown issues, we recommend disabling
    the Fast Startup/Hybrid Shutdown. To do so, follow these steps:

    • On the Search box, search and open Power Options.
    • Click Choose what the power button does.
    • Uncheck Turn on fast startup.
    • Save the changes and try shutting down your PC again.

    Let us know how the troubleshooting methods goes or if you need further assistance.
     
    Allan Mej, Nov 21, 2017
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  4. philc43 Win User

    Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot

    Have a look at your reliability history and see if there has been a shutdown problem. The fast boot process will also fail if the shutdown failed.

    Type reliability in the search box and select "View Reliability History". Here is mine showing 29 and 30th October with shutdown failures - the fast boot did not work when starting up after these events but did every other time.


    Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot [​IMG]
     
    philc43, Nov 23, 2017
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  5. To use Hybrid Shutdown you have to have Hibernation on and it will use about 75% of the amount of ram you have as disk space. SSD's are costly and I am not going to wastes 10 to 15GB of Drive space.
     
    Josey Wales, Nov 23, 2017
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  6. Mooly Win User
    Mooly, Nov 23, 2017
    #6
  7. It says that it will re open apps, well that does not work for me. Even if it did shutting down your PC several times a day cannot be good for it. I just put mine to sleep regular old fashioned sleep which will not work in THE FCU. So here I am loving The CU and as long as I use Windows it will be The CU.
     
    Josey Wales, Nov 23, 2017
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  8. Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot

    Thanks you all very much for your answers *Smile

    I've just done that, after turning on my PC for the first time in the day. I turned it off yesterday as usual. It performed a cold startup again. Three days ago I cleaned up the PC's event history, in the hope to be able to check for failures related to this more easily, so only the information of today and yesterday is available. I hope that's not a problem.

    I was unable to find any error related to Windows shutdown in there. However, I exported and uploaded the reliability history for you to check out, if you want, in Google Drive. Please note that my OS is in Spanish, so don't hesitate to ask me the meaning of some expression if you need to understand something.

    Thanks for your help, although I'd like to kindly remember that I already am aware of that. As I stated on my first post, hibernation shows as an option in the Start Menu and works fine. My PC has 4 GiB of RAM, and my system partition has 10.3 GiB free. The hiberfil.sys file exists on the root C:\ directory and is 1,663,336 KiB big. Being 4 GiB * 1024 MiB * 1024 KiB = 4,194,304 KiB, the hibernation file is about 39.66% the size of the installed amount of RAM which, according to several websites I've read about the topic, should be enough for fast boot at least.

    That link gives some interesting information about changes in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update shutdown behaviour, indeed.

    In fact, I discovered that my PC was performing cold boot not just because the longer boot times: other users of the system told me that, when they tried to turn the computer off, Windows showed a warning message about me having a session opened in the system. Which was kinda weird for me at first, because I always let Windows shut down when I stop using the PC. It turned out that me turning on the "Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting my device after an update or restart" option, without being conscious that it applies to cold boots too, was the culpirit. Disabling it allowed me to get rid of that problem. However, I think it should be also noted that it only applies to restarts, which imply a cold boot after shutdown. I tested that resuming my PC from hibernation didn't make that feature kick in, so I think that it shouldn't have an effect in fast boot, due to their similarities (fast boot is essentially a specific hibernation, AFAIK). In conclusion, the information provided in that link is definitely interesting, but I'm afraid it didn't help so much fixing the issue of fast boot not working in the first place.

    I've tried turning off the PC with all the methods detailed in here, but all of them resulted in cold boot after. I didn't pay attention to whether applications opened again or not, because that's not my focus of interest right now. If I wanted, I could turn the "Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting my device after an update or restart" option back on easily.
     
    AlexTMjugador, Nov 23, 2017
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  9. I hate to double post, but 2 weeks have passed and I'd like to remember that this issue is still relevant. Thanks.
     
    AlexTMjugador, Apr 4, 2018
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