Windows 10: Reboot after Windows Update vs Shutdown and restart

powercfg -h off is one of the first things I do on a clean install. It nukes the hyberfil.sys file and turns of sleep/hibernation. I never use sleep or hibernation anyway. I have an SSD in my laptop and desktop so Fast Startup isn't needed either.

 

Forgot to mention, I put a shortcut on my taskbar and Start Screen that does a shutdown.exe /s /t 00. Then its just the 1 click it when I want to shut down my PC.

 

Indeed, people in the past used to restart the computer to solve various problems, that does not apply in 10. There is no real restart anymore, unless they disable fast startup/hibernation. Complicates support a bit. *Rolleyes

 

Of course there is - use restart not shutdown *Wink

 

*Ditto The power button on the Start Screen list Shut Down and Restart as options.

 

The introduction to this explains it better than I can Fast Startup - Turn On or Off in Windows 8

I can't really imagine why you would want to use it as in my experience it is slower but I guess if you close your laptop without saving your Word document (and then leave it closed until the battery runs out in sleep mode) it might be handy.

 

If you have a laptop with a slow 5400 RPM spinner drive, it likely speeds up the boot up/log on process. It likely slows down the shutdown process though as it saves everything to the hyperfil.sys file. If you have an SSD I don't see the point though. It doesn't offer any noticeable speed up in log on for me. The other down side to it is, in a lot of cases it makes BIOS access problematic. You can't access it on boot up or get access to the Quick Boot Menu on boot up to boot from external media. You have to dig through a menu to reboot into your UEFI settings. That is one of the big reasons I turn it off. Also in the past I have also found Sleep and Hibernate to be unreliable. My PC goes to sleep but will not wake up. It was more trouble than it was worth.

 

Yup, quite so.

 

Anyone have issues restarting when an update is pending an install? The only way for me to finish installing the update is to manually choose the "Update and Restart" option. Any other restart option never installs the pending update...