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Question

windows 8.1 long restart but fast restart when turning on pc

Jan 30, 2015 9:43PM PST

Hello everyone.

i have a strange problem

when i restart my computer i takes too much time for windows to finish loading.

but then if i turn off my computer and immediatly turn it on again it start very quickly.

how should i fix it?

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that's exactly the way it works now
Jan 31, 2015 10:20AM PST

Shutdown button only sends it to hibernate, so it warm boots from there, but the Reset does a complete shutdown so it has to go through the BIOS part again and then load everything direct from all the places on the drive for the programs it wants instead of from a large hiberfile. Therefore Reset is slower.

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Fast start feature
Feb 1, 2015 1:35AM PST

Start/shutdown of Win 8.x is a PITA. It's suppose to help "fast start" the PC and give to access more quickly but always something can hose it up. You can get frozen black or white screens or frozen display because it got hung-up. New install s/w may cause an issue it it needs more access to the OS like anti-virus, etc.. or any deep backgrd. running pgms. In other words, when it works, great when it doesn't, PITA.

Now google for "fast start" to review all this. good luck

tada -----Willy Happy

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thanks for your answers :-)
Feb 1, 2015 8:00AM PST

hi and thank you.
so if I want to the REAL startup process to be faster? should I install windows from scratch or anything else?

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Or move to a SSD drive.
Feb 1, 2015 8:05AM PST

I like using resume from sleep when I can or hibernation. I don't reboot that often so I don't dive into this as much as I did years ago. A SSD drive would tackle a lot of the boot speed complaints.
Bob