When y'all click "Shut Down" on your Windows 10 PC, Windows doesn't fully unopen down. It hibernates the kernel, saving its terra firma thus it tin kicking faster. If you're experiencing estimator problems as well as demand to reset that state, you'll demand to restart your PC instead.
We've personally experienced this employment ourselves. When faced alongside weird organization problems that may endure caused past times a buggy driver or other low-level software issues, the employment persisted afterward shutting downwardly our PC as well as booting it dorsum up.
Why Doesn't the "Shut Down" Option Fully Shut Down?
This weirdness is all cheers to Windows 10's "Fast Startup" feature, which is enabled past times default. This characteristic was introduced inwards Windows 8, as well as has too been called Fast Boot as well as Hybrid Boot or Hybrid Shutdown.
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In the traditional shutdown process, Windows fully shuts downwardly everything, discards the running organization state, as well as starts upwards from scratch the side past times side fourth dimension the PC boots. When y'all hibernate, Windows saves the entire organization state, including all your opened upwards programs as well as files, to disk thus y'all tin rapidly resume from where y'all left off.
Fast Startup mixes the traditional shutdown procedure alongside hibernation. With Fast Startup enabled, Windows 10 discards all your opened upwards programs as well as files (as it would during a traditional shutdown), but saves the terra firma of the Windows marrow to disk (as it would during hibernation). The side past times side fourth dimension y'all kicking your PC, Windows restores the marrow as well as starts upwards the residue of the system.
The marrow is the low-level core programme at the pump of the operating system. It has total command over your estimator as well as is 1 of the start things loaded during the kicking process. The hardware drivers that your estimator uses to interact alongside its hardware devices are role of the kernel. Loading a snapshot of the marrow speeds upwards the startup process, every bit Windows doesn't receive got to accept fourth dimension to charge all the device drivers as well as reinitialize your hardware devices.
This marrow hibernation procedure all happens automatically when y'all click "Shut Down," as well as people volition rarely discovery the difference. But it way that if a hardware driver inwards your marrow is stuck inwards a weird state, shutting downwardly your PC as well as and thus booting it dorsum upwards in 1 lawsuit again won't cook the problem. Windows saves the electrical current terra firma as well as restores it instead of reinitializing everything.
How to Perform a Full Shut Down as well as Restart
If you're troubleshooting organization problems, you'll desire to perform a total unopen downwardly of the marrow to ensure Windows reinitializes things from scratch. To practise this, only click the "Restart" pick inwards the bill of fare instead of the "Shut Down" option. Windows restarts your computer, but it performs a total unopen downwardly start as well as discards the terra firma of the marrow piece doing so.
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Microsoft made this conclusion because people experiencing problems often reboot their computers to cook them, thus it makes about sense. On the other hand, it's counterintuitive that the "Restart" pick performs a to a greater extent than consummate unopen downwardly than the "Shut Down" option. But that's how it works!
You tin too perform a total unopen downwardly past times pressing as well as belongings the Shift substitution on your keyboard piece y'all click the "Shut Down" pick inwards Windows. This plant whether you're clicking the pick inwards the Start menu, on the sign-in screen, or on the covert that appears afterward y'all press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
If y'all prefer, y'all tin instead perform a total shutdown past times using the shutdown command from a Command Prompt or PowerShell window. To practise so, opened upwards a Command Prompt or PowerShell window—for example, past times searching for "Command Prompt" inwards the Start bill of fare as well as clicking its shortcut, or right-clicking the Start push as well as selecting "Windows PowerShell." Type the next command, as well as and thus press Enter:
shutdown /s /f /t 0
This command instructs Windows to unopen downwardly straight off as well as forcibly unopen whatever opened upwards applications. The shutdown command volition ever perform a total shutdown unless y'all add together the /hybrid option. And if it's something y'all desire to cash inwards one's chips on handy, y'all tin also make a shortcut that executes this command. All y'all receive got to practise as well as thus is double-click the shortcut to perform a total shutdown.
If y'all never desire to utilisation the Fast Startup feature, y'all tin disable it from the Control Panel. For example, about older hardware devices may non endure compatible alongside Fast Startup as well as may non reinitialize themselves properly when y'all kicking upwards again. Or y'all may endure dual-booting Linux, as well as y'all won't endure able to access your Windows NTFS file organization from inside Linux if Windows performs a hybrid shutdown instead of a total shutdown.
To disable Fast Startup, caput to Control Panel > System as well as Security > Power Options > Choose What the Power Button Does. Click the "Change settings that are currently unavailable" link at the travel past times of the window, uncheck the "Turn On Fast Startup (Recommended)" pick nether Shutdown Settings, as well as and thus click the "Save Changes" button.
We don't recommend y'all disable Fast Startup unless y'all receive got a proficient argue to practise so. It helps your PC kicking faster virtually of the time, as well as y'all tin ever perform a total shutdown alongside the tricks nosotros discussed earlier. But, if y'all ever demand to unopen downwardly as well as restart your PC to cook organization problems, retrieve to either click "Restart" or concur Shift every bit y'all click "Shut Down" to perform a total shutdown.
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