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Holaway
Dec 17, 2024Steel Contributor
Is My Windows Booting Too Fast?
I'm working on the new PC that came installed with Windows 11 Pro. As part of setting that up for myself I disabled Fast Startup and also Disabled Hibernation, which automatically deletes the hibernation file. Also, in Group Policy, I set "Require use of fast startup" to 'disabled'. So, in theory, my system shouldn't 'fast startup'. I don't want fast startup because I have in mind that it writes masses of data to the SSD as the system shuts down (and then reads that data when the system is newly booted into) — a kind of half-way hibernation mode is how I think of it.
However, what I have is a system that does seem to be 'suspiciously' starting up very fast. Is there anything else I need to do to stop this? What is this PC doing, why is it starting so fast?
- R_StarzuftIron Contributor
Many newer machines boot up very quickly due to improvements in processor and graphics. If you had an older machine you may be used to waiting a while for boot. Have you compared this with other similar computers, like the ones in the retail store? Even computer memory is faster today. About the only thing that might slow a new computer down is the internet connection. A newer router or fiber connection is much faster here too...