I'm basically a 5yo when it comes to hardware - so my apologies for the dumb question - but I wonder naïvely, could this enumeration be completely cached by def

I'm basically a 5yo when it comes to hardware - so my apologies for the dumb question - but I wonder naïvely, could this enumeration be completely cached by default? Most computers have most of the important stuff either soldered down (laptops) or at least not swapped regularly. I think I'd sign up immediately for a system where I had to hold a key at startup the first time I installed a new GPU or something, but otherwise it could boot into Windows in 3 seconds. Since most devices that are likely to change are hot-pluggable, I would imagine that those don't need to be checked on at boot time. I'd love to know where I'm wrong on this, though. Perhaps this is part of what Windows does -- I know that it basically keeps a hibernated image of the non-logged-in RAM state, for use when you shut down (and it throws it out if you do an explicit Restart, for troubleshooting reasons)