Originally Posted by
IBMJunkman
I think shutdown and hibernate are getting confused.
Sadly, with W10 Microsoft has indeed confused them.
A shutdown is no longer a shutdown, unless "Fast Startup" has been turned OFF. ON is the default.
Shutdown closes all the applications and then does some kind of hibernate. On power on it does a "driver refresh" whatever that is, but it is not a true cold start. I ALWAYS disable Fast Startup on W10. If I want hibernate I can choose hibernate from the power menu. When I choose shutdown I want a shutdown.
With the default "Fast Startup" setting (i.e. ON) the only way to get a cold startup of Windows is to choose "Restart" from the power menu. Of course in that case the damn hardware is not cold started. While it is rare, or very rare, these days for the hardware to misbehave, if I am having computer trouble I want to know that both the hardware and the software have had a cold start, preferably at the same time.
So - Fast Startup OFF - if computer misbehaving, shutdown then power back on.
[/rant mode] :-)
Hmmm. I now forget, this may have started with Windows 8.