Click on the “Choose what the power button does” link on the left side. By default, the Shutdown settings options are greyed out. Click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” to unlock the greyed out options. Now you can check / uncheck the “Turn on fast startup option” to enable / disable the fast startup feature. How to enable / disable fast startup in Windows 10? The “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” option is missing from the Power Options? Fast Startup is a new feature of Windows 10/8, that allows a computer to boot faster than before. This article will explain how the Fast Startup works and walk.
How to enable / disable fast startup in Windows 10? The “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” option is missing from the Power Options? Fast Startup is a new feature of Windows 10/8, that allows a computer to boot faster than before. This article will explain how the Fast Startup works and walk you through the steps to turn on / off Fast Startup missing in Windows 10.
How Fast Startup Works?
When you shutdown a PC with Fast Startup turned on, Windows saves the current system state and the contents of memory to a file called hiberfil.sys and then it shuts down the computer. Later, when you turn on the computer, rather than performing a full load of the entire system, Windows reads only the contents of the hiberfil.sys and then restores the system state and memory to the exact same condition they were in. This restoration operation can occur much faster than a computer can boot up from a complete shut down.
How to Turn On or Off Fast Startup Missing in Windows 10?
- Press the Windows logo key + X on your keyboard and then select Control Panel from the drop-down menu.
- When you go to the control panel it shows up as the “Category” view option by default. Switch it to “Large icons” then click Power Options.
- Click on the “Choose what the power button does” link on the left side.
- By default, the Shutdown settings options are greyed out. Click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” to unlock the greyed out options.
- Now you can check / uncheck the “Turn on fast startup option” to enable / disable the fast startup feature.
- Click Save changes button. Done!
Fast Startup Missing from the Power Options window?
If the “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” option is missing in the Shutdown Settings, then you have to enable Hibernation on your computer as a big part of Fast Boot builds upon the Hibernate feature. Here’s how:
- Press the Windows logo key + X on your keyboard and then select “Command Prompt (Admin)“.
- At the command box type the following command and press Enter to enable hibernation:
powercfg /hibernate on
- Close the Command Prompt window and then re-open the Control Panel. Fast Startup should be there now.
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I dual boot Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu. Every so often I get an error that looks like this when I try to access my NTFS (Windows) drive from Ubuntu.
Now I realise every time I start using Windows 10 it normally has updates, these cause fast boot to be enabled. So I go to the Control Panel and check if fast boot has been enabled if so I disable it and reboot to Windows 10 (to ensure the setting has been enabled), then shutdown Windows 10 and boot Ubuntu see if the error has gone away.
If it hasn't solved it I then go back to Windows and run cmd as Admin and enter
powercfg /h off
and then its usually fixed.![Fast Fast](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123748565/534319967.jpg)
But I figure if it keeps happening it seems a lot of reboots are required and its quite a tiresome process.
My idea:First I need a way to disable fast boot every time I shut down Windows 10? Just incase it gets enabled by some update. To do this I would have a script that turns off fast boot every time I shut down? (I'm yet to find a way to turn of fast boot via CMD so this is the current issue)
Then also put in that script run
powercfg /h off
If my idea is sound (I'm open to other suggestions) how do you disable fast boot via CMD/PowerShell?
Currently I have to go to the Control Panel -> Power Options -> Choose what the power buttons do -> (Untick) fast boot.
My purpose is to stop Windows 10 enabling Fast Boot option after every update (I want it off!).
![Fast boot windows 10 disable Fast boot windows 10 disable](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123748565/603398760.jpeg)
MarkMark
2 Answers
Links to other sites aren't that helpful because the content can change. The information you need to include in the batch file is:
NathanielNathaniel
Go to this site and download turn_off _tartup.bat and turn_on_startup.bat at the end of the page
Turn off startup.bat it will surely solve your problem. Another thing download turn on statrtup.bat also because you may need for the updates. My suggestion is to see updates section every week and if some updates are available then use turn_off_startup.bat and when updates are totally installed then use turn_on_startup.bat
DanidavidDanidavid