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> Win8 on an SSD cold boots to a working desktop with network connection in 7 seconds flat. Oddly enough, it's not booting. Clicking "Shut down" is hibernation

• deleted 14y ago
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• ygra 14y ago
  It hibernates session 0 and the kernel, indeed. But that's a nitpicker's distinction. To the end user the result is the same, it just boots faster.
  • Dylan16807 14y ago
    It's not a nitpick when you're trying to use the high-success-rate "turn it off and on again" method of fixing problems.
    • raverbashing 14y ago
      That died around Windows 2000. Really Restarting a software is one thing. Windows? (Well, sometimes it locks up or reboots by itself, usually because of a bad driver or bad hardware)
      • Dylan16807 14y ago
        I'm worried about flaky drivers, really. Drivers lead to most of my reboots. If it only purges the user state then it's not resetting what I need.
        • raverbashing 14y ago
          Yes. I'm skeptical with this "saves the state of drives" because that's not 100% possible, there's always some reinitializing that should take place So I'm assuming it redoes some things and doesn't just uses everything, so it's something like a partial reinitialization But maybe MS thought of that and you have an option to start/stop drivers (actually you can do that on any modern windows)
    • ygra 14y ago
      If you do a reboot (i.e. click Restart, not Shut down) it won't half-hibernate.
  • UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
    It is only nitpicking until it causes problems (e.g. driver XYZ tells you to "restart" your PC, so you "shutdown" for the night expecting it to do the job - but it won't). I have no issue with Fast Startup in Windows 8, but frankly feel like the way Microsoft is abusing terminology is borderline lying to people. They're trying to mislead people into thinking that Windows 8 has a better boot performance than Windows 7, when in fact Windows 8 and Windows 7 have very similar boot performance (from real cold-boot).