Windows 10: Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Fast Startup in Windows 10


Fast startup (aka: hiberboot, hybrid boot, or hybrid shutdown) is turned on by default in Windows and is a setting that helps your PC start up faster after shutdown. Even faster than hibernate. Windows does this by saving an image of the Windows kernel and loaded drivers to the hiberfile (C:\hiberfil.sys) upon shutdown so when you start your PC again, Windows simply loads the hiberfile (C:\hiberfil.sys) into memory to resume your PC instead of restarting it.




For more information about fast startup, see:

• Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8 - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
• Distinguishing Fast Startup from Wake-from-Hibernation | Microsoft Docs
• Delivering a great startup and shutdown experience | Microsoft Docs

Updates may not be installed with Fast Startup in Windows 10

Fast startup causes hibernation or shutdown to fail in Windows 10 or 8.1

The fast startup setting doesn’t apply to Restart. You need to shut down and then start your PC again for fast startup to take effect.



Fast startup requires that specify the hiberfile type as reduced to significantly reduce the size of the hiberfile (C:\hiberfil.sys) to about half of its full size.



If you disable hibernate, then it will also disable fast startup.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to turn fast startup on or off.



This tutorial will show you how to turn fast startup on or off for all users in Windows 10.


Contents

• Option One: To Turn On or Off Fast Startup in System Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off Fast Startup using a BAT file
• Option Three: Enable or Disable to Require Fast Startup in Local Group Policy Editor
• Option Four: Enable or Disable to Require Fast Startup using a REG file

OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Fast Startup in System Settings
1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Power Options icon.

2 Click/tap on the Choose what the power buttons do link on the left side. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on the Change settings that are currently unavailable link at the top. (see screenshot below)



4 If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.

5 Do step 6 or step 7 below for what you would like to do.


6. To Turn On Fast Startup
This is the default setting.

A) Under Shutdown settings, check the Turn on fast startup box, click/tap on the Save changes button, and go to step 8 below. (see screenshot below step 8)
7. To Turn Off Fast Startup
A) Under Shutdown settings, uncheck the Turn on fast startup box, click/tap on the Save changes button, and go to step 8 below. (see screenshot below step 8)
8 You can now close the System Settings window if you like.

If the Turn on fast startup setting is not listed, then you will need to close the System Settings window, step 1 again.










OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Fast Startup using a BAT file
The downloadable .bat files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power

HiberbootEnabled DWORD

0 = Turn off fast startup
1 = Turn on fast startup


1 Do step 2 or step 3 below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Fast Startup
This is the default setting.

A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Fast_Startup.bat

Download

3. To Turn Off Fast Startup
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the BAT file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Fast_Startup.bat

Download
4 Save the .bat file to your desktop.

5 Right click or press and hold on the downloaded .bat file, and click/tap on Run as administrator.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run and Yes (UAC).

If you like, you can stop getting the Run prompt by [/I]unblocking the downloaded .bat file.


7 You will now notice your screen flicker as a command prompt quickly opens and closes to apply the registry changes.

8 You can now delete the downloaded .bat file if you like.





OPTION THREE Enable or Disable to Require Fast Startup in Local Group Policy Editor
If enabled, this option will override Option One and Option Two.

The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions.

All editions can use Option Four.


1 Open the Local Group Policy Editor.

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of the Local Group Policy Editor. (see screenshot below)
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Shutdown




3 In the right pane of Shutdown in Local Group Policy Editor, double click/tap on the Require use of fast startup policy to edit it. (see screenshot above)

4 Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (default) below for what you would like to do.


5. To Enable Require Fast Startup
A) Select (dot) Enabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

6. Default to Not Require Fast Startup
A) Select (dot) Not Configured or Disabled, click/tap on OK, and go to step 7 below. (see screenshot below)

Not Configured is the default setting. This will allow you to use Option One and Option Two to turn on or off fast startup.




7 When finished, you can close the Local Group Policy Editor if you like.





OPTION FOUR [/i] Enable or Disable to Require Fast Startup using a REG file
If enabled, this option will override Option One and Option Two.

The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System

HiberbootEnabled DWORD

(delete) = Default
1 = Always enable


1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (default) below for what you want to do.


2. To Enable Require Fast Startup
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Enable_require_Fast_Startup.reg

Download

3. Default to Not Require Fast Startup
This is the default setting. This will allow you to use Option One and Option Two to turn on or off fast startup.


A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Default_not_require_Fast_Startup.reg

Download

4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7 If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable Fast Boot in UEFI Firmware Settings for Windows
• How to Hibernate the Computer in Windows 10
• How to Enable or Disable Hibernate in Windows 10
• How to Shut Down the Computer in Windows 10
• How to Put Your Computer to Sleep in Windows 10
• How to Specify Hiberfile Type as Full or Reduced in Windows 10
• How to Check if Last Boot was from Fast Startup, Full Shutdown, or Hibernate
• How to See Sleep States Available on your Windows 10 PC

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Please turn off Fast startup that would resolve this issue.

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You're very welcome*Smile

 

Has the Win-X Shutdown been tested with the released version of Win 10? My installation does not work as listed in the Note above.
I did some testing on my Win 10 laptop and found that using the Shutdown command from the right click on the Start Button does NOT do a full shut down. You can test for yourself by using the regular shutdown with the Fast Start feature and then the note the time to get to the Hello screen. Then try the same test with the right click then Shutdown. Then try a test with the right click and use the Restart option. In my case using both shutdown options gave the same restart time, but the Restart option gave a much longer time. From this, I would surmise that the Restart is the only one of these three scenarios that actually does a shutdown.
One other thing that indicates this is true is that the BIOS options are not offered when coming back from the Hybrid Sleep of the Fast Start feature when using both Shutdown options, but they do appear when you use the Restart option.

My installation of Win 10 was an upgrade from Win 7 Ultimate.

 

Hello Peter, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Performing a restart will not give you an accurate comparison to shut down.

Instead, you could use the command below for an immediate full forced shut down to compare with. I'll be interested in your results.

shutdown /s /f /t 0

 

Here are some unofficial timings from a stopwatch.

I have a 6 year old HP laptop with 4GB memory and a 512 GB SSD for my system drive. I timed for the shutdown scenarios from the time I hit the power button until the Hello/desktop screen appeared. I also took an intermediate time from when the Windows logo displayed until the Hello/desktop screen appeared.

Fast Start feature is enabled on the system.



Shutdown from the Start Button, 24.56 sec, 5.92 sec, No BIOS start screen
Right click Start Button and Shutdown, 25.03 sec, 5.92 sec, NO BIOS start screen
Cmd line shutdown from your post, 38.94 sec, 19.3 sec, BIOS start screen does appear
Restart from Start Button, 34.44 sec, 19.67 sec, BIOS start screen does appear
Right click Start Button and Restart, 39.68 sec, 19.41 sec, BIOS start screen does appear
Win + X shutdown, 25.51 sec, 6.65 sec, NO BIOS start screen

From the above times and descriptions of the BIOS screen appearing during the boot process, I would respectfully suggest that the Shutdown from the Win + X menu you note above still uses the Fast Start Hybrid shutdown.

Could this be a change in the final version released to the public? I did not participate in the win 10 previews.

 

From your results, it looks like none of the "Shut down" options perform a full shutdown other than the command. I can't include "Restart" since that always does a full shut down and restarts.

One more thing to look at is if you have "Fast Boot" enabled in your UEFI firmware settings or not. If enabled, you usually don't see the BIOS splash screen.

 

My system is too old for UEFI.

 

Interesting. It appears that they don't do a full shutdown anymore. Thank you for posting your results.

It'll be interesting to see what results others have as well. *Smile

 

Have you been able to have someone test the Fast Start for Win 8/8.1 instructions over at Eight Forums to see if they have changed too? I never used Win 8/8.1, so I cannot help here.

 

Hey Peter,

The hybrid shut down is still the same in Windows 8.1. It only appears to have changed in Windows 10.

 

My hard drive is a hybrid one (Seagate ST750LX003), should turn on Fast startup or turn off? the reason i ask is because hybrid disks (except the Western Digital) the SSD portion learns the user usage, including boot.

 

Hello LM2007, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you would like to have faster startups from a shut down, then turning on Fast Startup would help with that.

I'm not sure what you mean "learns the user usage" though. That has nothing to do with Fast Startup.

 

The drive learns about my usage habit (most opened files or apps and boot files for example) and cache them to the SSD portion for faster read. I know "Fast Startup" do not completely shutdown the system, here is my worry. Since it will not shutdown completely, can it affect how the drive manage the files?