Don't SHUT DOWN your computer!

Straight to the point. No rambling for 30 minutes. Great tutorial. I wish more instructors and educators would learn that!

It's so refreshing to find a video that just starts without the usual intro. Great stuff, really learned a lot here

I wish all people were like this guy, he just goes straight to the point and shows all the steps to do and the meanings for all things. No narcissistic waste of time trying to adore his own persona like if he was a celebrity.

Never underestimate the power of a restart. Doesn’t just apply to your computer, either.

I've been a computer programmer for years, but I didn't know this about the shutdown process. I did notice that some led lights were still on in my computer after a 'shutdown'. Thanks for making this useful video.

I find that Fast Startup is really only useful if your computer is using one of those older mechanical hard drives rather than the more modern SSDs. SSDs are so fast there really isn't much to be gained with Fast Startup enabled.

Thank you for not forcing this past the 10min mark with random computer/personal history. This stuff is useful to know.

I didn't know about this for more than 20years working in IT field. Wow! give this man a standing ovation and monument. Thank you.

The title can be misleading, so I’ll add this: YOU SHOULD ALWAYS shut down your computer regularly, because although the kernel doesn’t get reset other caches are, so by doing this you can avoid having issues related to running your computer for too long. Otherwise very informative video, I learned a few things.

Just run "shutdown /s /t 2". If you want to see how long it's been since a true shutdown simply run the Task Manager and look at the Performance tab with the CPU option selected. The Uptime will show how long your computer has been running since a restart or true shutdown.

Just a clarification: Shutdown with Fast Startup enabled is basically like hibernating AFTER logging off. The computer saves the RAM content to HDD/SDD and FULLY turns off. When you turn it on, Windows doesn't need to load everything back up, it simply loads the hibernated state and logs in, which sometimes creates havoc with drivers and/or hardware, specially old/outdated ones. If the computer has an SSD, having Fast Startup on or off won't make much of a difference anyway, even on old hardware, so just keep it disabled.

As I understand it, the original difference between sleep and hibernate is that sleep remembers your system's current state in RAM, which means it requires constant access to power to retain sleep mode. Hibernate saves your current state to the hard drive and loads that state from the drive when restarted, like with fast startup, and thus can be fully disconnected from power while hibernating and still be able to reload the state of the machine when it was told to hibernate.

For a few months, my computer has been starting slowly. After turning the computer on, it would sit on a black screen for about 3 minutes before showing the boot screen. Immediately after watching this video, I held shift while turning my PC off, and voila! My PC starts instantly again! Thank you! I love you so much.

I did not know we could disable the fast start up feature. I have been doing manual restarts on weekly basis to avoid issues, so you have saved me, yet again with good advice and Thank you!

Very simplified, but this is a great tutorial for the masses and very easy for pretty much anyone to follow with no false or missed information

Brilliant! 'Hibernate' is the function I've been looking for for years. And so well explained. Great job Liron!

I just discovered you sir and I have to tell you I'm hyped for you videos. No non-sense advertising, no useless intro, clear concise information. You sir are a legend! I subscribed and liked the video after only 2 minutes! Keep it up!

Some thing you missed - using hibernation permanantly stores memory data from RAM to the hard drive. This might cause heavy wear off when using an SSD. And they still use cheap nand quite often days, so enabling hibernation can make your drive fail earlier.

Even AS a fully trained and certified system Integrator.... I am impressed and learned Something. Very nice

I've been disabling hybrid shutdown ("powercfg -h off") for years, partly to speed up the shutdown process but mainly to reduce wear on SSDs, because with it on, every shutdown hammers ~4GB onto your boot drive, shortening its lifespan (think about it - it's more IO than a home user writes to their drive cumulatively in a typical day, happening every single time). I hadn't thought so much about the software advantages of non-hybrid shutdowns, but it makes sense. A 'true' restart is always the first diagnostic step.