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>but I do think Windows seems to do a little better software-wise too Windows 10 does a little trick to speed up boot - when you perform a shutdown, Windows 10
by dexen 7y ago
>but I do think Windows seems to do a little better software-wise too
Windows 10 does a little trick to speed up boot - when you perform a shutdown, Windows 10 saves a mini-hibernation image to the hibernation file. When you perform normal boot, it can start up quite fast[1]. This gives noticeably shorter boot time especially on spinning rust drives (i know, i know, $CURRENT_YEAR). However if you perform a "reboot" instead of "shutdown + power on", you'll get the full length boot of notably longer time.
[1] assuming the hardware setup is sufficently unchanged
- Narishma 7y agoThat's the first thing I disable after ever Windows 10 update (it keeps getting reset for some reason). If you have a dual-boot setup, it can result in a corrupted partition if you try to access your Windows 10 partition from another OS when fast start is enabled.
- ehnto 7y agoI run separate partitions for OS and storage on dual boot machines, so I can avoid the risk of one OS corrupting the other.
- sneak 7y agoNope; if the hibernated OS has the storage volume mounted, and you edit that volume in another OS, separate or not you will end up with corruption, just as if two machines had mounted it simultaneously.
- tibbon 7y agoI feel that (partially due to this hibernation file, partially due to SSDs) that Windows boots are actually faster than ever now. Even a reboot seems to take under 30 seconds. I remember just the RAM test on my Pentium 1 was several minutes, and the boot time was a few more often
- Shorel 7y agoMay be, but Ubuntu still boots faster in the same hardware, doing a full boot sequence.
- Fabricio20 7y agoThis exact hibernation feature is what I feel is making my shutdowns slower! I've been rocking an M.2 ssd for quite some time now and Win10 _always_ takes a considerate 1-2 minutes to shutdown.
- sudosysgen 7y agoWouldn't even dumping literally all ram contents take only a few seconds on an NVMe drive? It's probably something else.
- arh68 7y agoI get 11 seconds to shut down, 11 seconds to boot, on a 256G NVMe ssd. I'm curious what's going on on your machine.