Windows 10: Do you deliberately perform restarts to keep file system in order.

Hey, if it works for you, use it. Just don't be surprised by opposing views. *Wink

 

I'll have to test on one of my systems, but I'd be surprised if the setting changes anything, other than draining the battery of a laptop.

 

There's no battery drain with fast boot enabled. The required file is written to the HDD/SSD ready for immediate loading on power up.

 

Unless you suffer with one of the systems who, in conjunction with certain Intel Management Engine drivers, doesn't fully shut down. I have a Pavilion x360, and it needs specific IME drivers and Fast Startup disabled, or else my battery will drain overnight when it is "off".

 

Interesting. Mines an Intel i5 based system (Dell Vostro) but I couldn't tell you the specifics.

 

I use all Dell at work and haven't come across the issue. My wife and I each have i5 Intel chipset based Pavilion x360s and they both suffer from the issue, as do many other HPs. It's frustrating, until it is resolved. Makes me think our next laptops will be Dells.

 

My Win10 partition is pretty small(40GB), so I use shift+shutdown once in a while to lower size of the page file.
I like to have the page file at 1GB but if a do some RAM intensive stuff the pagefile would increase to 3-5GB and stay there unless I restart or do a proper shut-down.