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PC sometimes boot faster after being completely powered off
I have noticed that my PC sometimes boots up faster when I start it from a completely powered-off state compared to when I restart it from Windows. This seems counterintuitive because I would expect ...
The Windows kernel and your loaded drivers are saved to a file (hiberfil.sys) on your hard drive. When you power the PC back on, it simply reloads this saved state, which is much faster than starting everything from scratch.