Some users recommend turning fast startup off and some recommend leave it on, what is your opinion?
Poll Do You Use Fast Startup on Windows 11?
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It depends on your needs. If you frequently restart your computer, disabling Fast Startup may speed up the boot process. However, if you often use the shutdown option, enabling Fast Startup can make your PC boot faster. Always consider your usage habits and system performance.
It is enabled by default on my system. It does not bother me at all.
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When I use fast startup, my PC crashes with a blue screen after a while.
Fast Startup was useful back when we used HDD for boot drive. Now with SSDs I don't see the point. Plus, it can mess with few programs like Throttlestop, AVs etc.
Fast startup was introduced in Windows 8 and all PCs should support it.
It's because you have SSD. It makes difference on PCs with HDD. Fast startup is combination of hibernation+shut down.
Yes I just checked again and the reason I don't have the option to enable it, is because I have disabled hibernation.
First thing i disable , usually after Fresh installs and encountering random issues because i forgot to disable it and the issues vanish after disabling it.
I mean my windows is installed on a NVME , theres virtually no difference except "on" gives me tons of issues.
I mean my windows is installed on a NVME , theres virtually no difference except "on" gives me tons of issues.
Does anybody know if Fast startup affects the lifespan of an ssd?
it doesnt ( not to a mentionable degree ) , it basicly only stores some loaded kernel drivers and files on the system drive and reloads them processed on boot , basicly Hibernate Ultra light
honestly with most modern SSD you likely wont wear them down before 5-8 years of use or likely more this includes big swap files big installs and more.
i would still recommend to disable this bad settings it makes only issues. ( But dont disable Sysmain / Prefetch /swap files just mentioning cause you likely want to extend the lifespan and find all kind of bad guides online with this. )
Theoretically yes, it affects the life span as it essentially saves a snapshot of your system's RAM to your SSD when you shut down. On the next startup, Windows loads this snapshot instead of going through the full boot process.
Practically not that much unless you shutdown every hour daily. Modern SSDs are pretty resilient. I only lost 7% in my 500GB SSD (system drive with way too many clean installs done than I would have liked) and 2% on my 1TB SSD in more than 2 years of usage. They will outlast the lifespan of this laptop easily.
Edit: Updated the % lifespan of SSDs as I remembered them incorrectly before.
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Yes, it might cause that. Quote from MB forum, one user had similar issue, MB not starting up at boot.
Malwarebytes for Windows does not launch on startup when enabled
The program *sometimes* does not start when Windows starts even though I have always left the startup setting turned on. I never disable it. I find this suspicious and I am worried that there is malware that is evading Malwarebytes.
forums.malwarebytes.com
That's a MBAM bug, supposedly fixed.
My turtle laptop has an HDD and I still disable it.
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