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every time my dad calls me about some
computer-based problem i tell him reboot
ninety percent of the cases the problems
fixed but there is a right way and a
wrong way to go about rebooting your
device let me show you what i mean
so the main reason why rebooting solves
so many issues is that it clears up the
ram which is short for random access
memory when your computer is on you have
background processes running you have
logs that are being created plus the
programs that you work with create
temporarily cache files cache files are
files that help your software load the
information faster so you can think of
it like shorthand nodes that your
computer takes that help it quickly put
together the original data a proper
reboot cleans all of that out and gives
your windows system a fresh start now
what is a proper reboot though
is it a restart or a shutdown or it
doesn't really matter well it actually
matters a lot so intuitively when we see
the options shut down and restart we
assume that a shutdown is more
comprehensive and it kills all the
processes well that's not true
it's the restart that kills all
processes
you see many years ago with windows 8
microsoft introduced what's called the
fast startup which sounds a lot like a
netflix job now i have to say usually
microsoft isn't the best at naming
features but here they did a good job
so the fast startup became the default
in windows it's probably your default
too you just didn't pay much attention
to it the main purpose of this as the
name suggests is to save valuable
seconds when you boot up your computer
it does this by saving some of the
system related files
and drivers to a hibernation file during
the shutdown process then when you turn
on your pc again it reads that
hibernation file and reloads the content
which makes it faster than a restart
because when you do a restart all the
windows drivers devices and services are
initialized from scratch
so because a fast startup doesn't load a
fresh session
some of the problems that it had before
you shut down may still continue after
you turn on your computer again or your
device again now you might have noticed
this and this is something i was
wondering about a bit when you have to
install a windows update it asks you if
you want to install updates and shut
down or install updates and restart so
even if you select install and shut down
it's going to restart first and then
shut down that's because it wants to
clean things up with the restart
if you want to change your shutdown
experience and have a proper shutdown
which acts like a restart you can you
can turn off fast restart
especially if you have a modern laptop
or desktop with fast ssd hard drives the
reduction of startup time is going to be
minimal to disable it press the windows
button and type in control panel select
that
and then in the pane on the left select
choose what the power buttons do down
here under shutdown settings you're
going to see a checkbox for fast startup
which will probably be checked if the
selections are grayed out click on
change settings that are currently
unavailable up here then uncheck fast
startup save your change and that's it
you don't have to worry about a clean
reboot anymore because every time you
shut down it's going to act like a
restart i tried with fast startup on and
off and timed the boot up time on my pc
and i couldn't see much of a difference
but i have a fairly powerful setup so
just test it out for yourself and see if
it's worth having on or not now this
reminds me of my ex-colleague at the
office who never shut down or restarted
his computer because he didn't want it
to install updates on his workstation so
i guess i had bad experience it usually
installed the updates at the end of the
month and he was responsible for month
end reporting which is anyhow a few
stressful days at the beginning of the
month the last thing you want is to have
your system failing so i'm not sure if
he's still doing that or if that tactic
still works at the office a team might
now be forcing a restart centrally
anyhow while we're on the topic of
shutting down if you have windows 11 you
don't have to click the windows icon and
then move all the way here click the
power button and then select what you
want
instead just right click on the windows
icon and select what you want that works
in windows 10 too by the way okay so i
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