Shutdown and Fast startup in Windows 8

Fast boot

You probably heard about fast Windows 8 boot times achieved by kernel session hibernation instead of full system shutdown and cold start with system initialization.

Great article can be found here with tons of useful information:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx

By default

Understand the difference between 2 types of start:

• fast startup
• full system shutdown followed by a cold boot

By default behind the Shutdown option, fast startup is configured, but behind Restart, your system is fully stopped and makes a cold boot.

• Shutdown option: uses fast startup
• Reboot: no fast startup, it means a full restart, every service, everything, always

Shutdown and restart on charm bar, shutdown uses fast startup, while restart means a full system stop and “cold start”