Windows 10: Disabling Fast Startup on Windows 10 causes not to shutdown. Reverts back to Lockscreen....

Good day. From the question itself, every time I Disable Fast Startup on Windows 10 it causes not to shutdown. Reverts back to Lockscreen. Opposite to what other people have been experiencing. Now if I enable "Fast startup, windows has to boot twice before starting. Can anyone help? Thank you. Edition Windows 10 Home Single Language Version 22H2 Installed on ‎20/‎10/‎2023 OS build 19045.4123 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19054.1000.0

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Windows Fast Startup causing crashes, corruptions, and (recently) user lockout

Hi MarcoA07

Fast Startup is a setting that helps your device to start faster after shutdown. Windows does this by saving the kernel session and device drivers (system information) to the hibernate file on disk instead of closing it when
you shut down the computer. Thus, disabling the Fast Startup doesn't have a adverse effect to your system.

In-line with your concern, there have been reports about hibernation or shutdown failure, crashes, or even performance issues
which is caused by some services or drivers that failed to initialize upon startup.
If you wish to enable this feature, I suggest that you ensure that your system is up to date by following the steps provided on this
support article.

Let us know should you have other concerns.

 

Fast Startup - How to disable if it's causing problems

Technical Level : Intermediate

Summary
How to disable Fast Startup on your Windows 8/8.1 OS if it's causing problems regarding shutting down, etc.

Details
In this article we're going to discuss how to disable Fast Startup. Why? In many systems it is known to cause issues with shutting down, restarting, etc. For example, on my system after I would shut down my system, it wouldn't fully shut down and would remain
in a hibernation state instead. After I went ahead and disabled Fast Startup, I was able to successfully shut down.

There are multiple ways to troubleshoot an issue shutting down, such as generating an energy report and viewing it to see what driver and/or device is holding up the shut down. Alternatively, another way to solve it (permanently in case yours happens frequently...
like mine did) is to disable Fast Startup. If you're on a desktop with
decent hardware, then disabling Fast Startup really won't make too much of a noticeable difference. Besides, in my case when I wake up in the morning, I turn on my PC and walk away to complete my morning routine before getting on the PC. With that said, in
my case, it's not entirely necessary.

To expand on what exactly Fast Startup is, Fast Startup is a hybrid combination of a cold startup and a wake-from-hibernation startup. Frequently, kernel-mode device drivers need to distinguish Fast Startups from wake-from-hibernation so that that their devices
behave as users expect. This is exactly where my issue stemmed from, because my webcam drivers evidently couldn't distinguish properly.

During a cold startup, the boot loader constructs a kernel memory image by loading the sections of the Windows kernel file into memory and linking them. Next, the kernel configures core system functions, enumerates the devices attached to the computer, and
loads drivers for them.

In contrast, a fast startup simply loads the hibernation file (Hiberfil.sys) into memory to restore the previously saved image of the Windows kernel and loaded drivers. A fast startup tends to take significantly less time than a cold startup.

More information (and much more in-depth)
here.

Disabling Fast Startup

1. Navigate to Start by either clicking the Start
   icon or hitting the Windows key.
2. In the Search bar, type Power to bring up various Power Options.
3. Select Change what the power buttons do.
4. See the below image:

If you have UAC enabled (enabled by default unless you disable it manually), before un-checking
Turn on fast startup, you'll need to select Change settings that are currently unavailable. Once you do that, you will be able to successfully un-check
Turn on fast startup.

After you've unchecked Turn on fast startup, your next shut down will this time
actually shut down the system if you're having the issues described above.

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More troubleshooting information with a different method for those interested on my blog post here -

http://bsodanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/05/fast-startup-how-to-disable-if-its.html

 

Windows 10 "Shutdown Button" Not Working - I Give Up

Hello, Caxtin. I’ve not actually heard about this before - I’m assuming when you shut down and make a small mouse or keyboard input it turns on instantly? My guess on the fix is to disable Fast startup. Fast Startup is also known as Windows Hybrid Shutdown. Follow these steps to disable it:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Go to Hardware and Sound → Power Options
3. Click on Choose what the power button doeschoose what the power button does
4. Go to Shutdown Settings
5. Uncheck the Turn on Fast Startup (recommended) optionturn off fast startup windows 10
6. Apply the changes.

If you can’t uncheck Fast Startup, click on the option Change settings that are currently unavailable. You could also run the shutdown command to see if that works (a method of troubleshooting if the above option doesn’t work) In the start menu type: Shutdown /s /t 0 - *Smile