Does Fast Boot Drain Battery?

[riahim]

I was wondering if leaving fast boot on drains the battery?
I notice that every time I go to turn my computer back on it is either dead or almost dead.
Now, I use my laptop very infrequently since I also have a desktop (usually a couple times a month unless I'm not home). I've also noticed that the laptop is really slow (even with fastboot) and the battery life is pretty bad compared to what it used to be. That being said, should I leave fast boot on and what other maintenance should I be performing. I always perform the necessary windows updates, drivers, etc when I use my laptop after not being used for a while.

ps: If I leave programs open (i.e chrome or file explorer) and then shutdown my laptop, when I reboot I automatically still have those programs up and running. Does fastboot preserve all this?

 

[Colif]

Yes, fast boot would drain battery as what it uses is hybrid hibernate to save half the open data in ram and over half in page file, when you shut PC down - this is meant to speed up boot. As such, it would need a little bit of power to maintain the ram portion

Yes, fast boot does that as part of the above function. Its very much like sleep.

have you defragged hdd?

 

[riahim]

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the straightforward answer. Would you recommend leaving fastboot enabled or should I disable it?

I haven't defragged for about a year now. I'll try this and see if it helps. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Colif]

I would turn it off, since you only rarely use laptop. Better for it to boot slowly than not at all.

Defrag should speed it up a little.

 

[riahim]

Thanks for the help!