

The first thing I do when configuring a new Windows 10 system is to turn Fast Startup OFF. One of the hardest issues I ever had to solve was on a Windows 8.1 machine where Fast Startup was on (and at that time I didn't know it even existed) and it made the keyboard do stuff like swapping letters. Over time, data slowly becomes corrupted in the hiberfile, and this can result in some really peculiar behaviors. Hibernation was never intended or designed to be "in perpetuity" with the system never actually completely powered down or restarted such that Windows is reloaded afresh from disc. Fast Startup does not include the user(s) state(s), only the state of the Windows OS. In regular hibernation the OS system state, and the state(s) of the user(s) are both written out to disk, the system is powered down with a trigger set for it to read in both again when it powers up. Question ? WHY ? It appears to be a direct contradiction of what this setting is supposed to do !īecause Fast Startup is a variant on hibernation.
