Fast Startup not enabling.

[Haswellx86]

Fast startup was disabled from a long time on my system and I kinda want to enable it because my boot is getting worse with more data I am storing on my drive. But I remembered that the fast startup toggle doesn't actually work, until recently I was re-installing SoftPerfect's Ram disk software, in which it recommended be to disable Windows hybrid boot, and I probably checked this when I was installing it for the first time. But I uninstalled Ram disk and reset the fast startup settings but it still doesn't work. I tried changing through registry (Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power) and also tried manually shutting down in hybrid mode through terminal.

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

Fast startup was disabled from a long time on my system and I kinda want to enable it because my boot is getting worse with more data I am storing on my drive. But I remembered that the fast startup toggle doesn't actually work, until recently I was re-installing SoftPerfect's Ram disk software, in which it recommended be to disable Windows hybrid boot, and I probably checked this when I was installing it for the first time. But I uninstalled Ram disk and reset the fast startup settings but it still doesn't work. I tried changing through registry (Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power) and also tried manually shutting down in hybrid mode through terminal.

If you are running from an SSD then it shouldn't really be slowing down (its writes which get slower as the drive fill up, not reads) and fast startup should really be off anyway.

 

I'd be looking at if there is anything being automatically run at startup/login to see what is slowing things down, I very much doubt fast startup would make a huge difference there, if any.  I've only ever seen it make booting slower from an SSD.

[Haswellx86]

@Alex Atkin UK Now don't tell me that the reads and all shouldn't go down. I have made multiple posts regarding this but my boot keeps increasing the more data I keep adding. And don't talk about startup apps and all, it's pretty optimized. I just want to get fast startup enabled, although if you do have more suggestions of why my read (or rather boot time, which could be different from read) is getting slower.

 

8 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I very much doubt fast startup would make a huge difference there, if any.

It would make a huge difference. When my laptop was new, it took a circle and half to boot with a full start, but with fast startup, it didn't even give time for the animation to load. And I still remember, when my boot time was getting slower and slower, my fast startup boot time didn't get a bit slower.

[Eigenvektor]

Fast startup is a form of hibernation, so it requires additional space. It does very little to speed up booting on an SSD.

 

You could try analyzing boot times:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/optimizing-performance-and-responsiveness-exercise-2