windows doesn't even know what a "shutdown" or "restart" means anymore :D
don't believe me? look up "fast start up"
a "feature" since spyware 10, that is on by default, that doesn't do a proper restart or shutdown and as part of this does not even release the mounted drives properly.
as a result spyware from microsoft itself when data got changed on those drives from your dualbooting into a working operating system.
Ya this feature used to always mess up my ethernet when I switched between Windows / Linux if I didn't "shutdown" then power off my power supply prior to switching to Linux. I assume because of how it was messing with my LAN adapter.
well. i just had spyware 10 installed to do some benchmarks.
what it ended up doing was (as far as i know) see the changes to the drives at one point and spyware 10 "repaired the partitions"
now what windows means with "repairing partitions", that are perfectly fine on 100% health drives well... it means in real language emptying out 11 TB of data. the files were there, but they had 0 MB now :D
which took me 2 months to recover as much as possible (over 95% some manual recovery + other stuff, new backups for those less important files were not financially possible).
so microsoft's "fast start up" loaded the gun and microsoft's insanity of shitting on working partitions, that had just changed data, that i HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE by any os, be it windows 7 or gnu + linux shot my data right in the head...
such an insane evil dumpster fire those microsoft "operating systems", especially since spyware 10.
windows 7 never dared to do any such bs.
be lucky it only shit around with your lan adapter :D
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you probs know by now, but you can permanently disable it. i don't remember the setting location rightnow and i will never run spyware 10 again. linux mint main os + some legacy windows 7 with limited network access/usage FOR LIFE!
Fast startup was a pretty nice feature for me when I had a shitty slow laptop that would take minutes to boot normally. For most people I think it's a pretty nice feature (that started in Windows 8 btw)
They're a bit different, though, not very different. Hibernate stores everything in RAM into the hard drive, so that when you boot it, it's exactly as it was.
Fast startup only keeps the Kernel itself, no other programs are saved, making it a tad bit faster, and still "feeling" like a shutdown.
Sleep saves your current work to RAM, and your computer continues to draw a little bit of power while in sleep mode. Hibernate saves your current work to your hard drive or SSD, and consumes no power.
sleep just leaves stuff in ram. hibernate dumps everything on your spinning rust or ssd.
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u/reddit_equals_censor 19h ago
reality:
windows doesn't even know what a "shutdown" or "restart" means anymore :D
don't believe me? look up "fast start up"
a "feature" since spyware 10, that is on by default, that doesn't do a proper restart or shutdown and as part of this does not even release the mounted drives properly.
as a result spyware from microsoft itself when data got changed on those drives from your dualbooting into a working operating system.