Discussion Fast startup, why is it still in windows 11?

[Colif]

So I would love to know the percentage of Windows 11 machines that still use a HDD as boot drive

As fast startup is on by default in Win 11 and its completely useless for anyone with an SSD or NVME, it mainly speeds up boot times for people with hdd but NVME and SSD are so much faster than hdd that they won't benefit from having it on.

If anything it is a land mine as if you unplug PC with it on, you can corrupt installs. It might not happen but I have seen it before. Enough to just turn function off even on mums pc that has a hdd. Its unplugged too often to play Russian roulette with her install.

Windows 11 should be smart and disable function on any PC with an nvme or ssd.

 

[JinxTheWorld]

Do PC's even come with HDD's anymore? Even the cheapest of laptops have an SSD nowadays. The PC's that come with win11 either have an NVME or SSD installed as boot drive. Yeah i am lost on that bit as well haha. At the very least it definitely should not be pre-enabled. When i got my PC from Ibuypower, it wasn't enabled, though it was win10.

Still waiting on MS to get "win11 ready for me" lmao. Don't really care though, still a few bugs for them to work out. So no rush.

 

[Colif]

You not really missing anything, there is nothing in 11 that makes it must have. I wish there was, but after using it a few months now, its just windows. It doesn't do anything that win 10 can't do. Not on my PC anyway.

 

[geofelt]

It is still there, probably because it takes more work to analyze when it should or should not be used.

 

[Colif]

I guess its there as once they add a feature it takes a while before they remove it. Just look at feature creep in Word

Maybe win 12 won't have it. Maybe it will be there much longer... windows still has a fax machine built in. It might just be disabled since its already not linked to a settings menu, you have to use control panel to access it now.

 

[iTRiP]

I still have it disabled, and by that I do believe it was set to disabled by default after a fresh install, still got that error that I got on the often, something about windows was not properly shutdown reoccurring so very often in my mind, haha luckily that's all in the past now.

My opinion the setting and the effect should just be gone now in windows 11, especially if the pc has NVMe or SSD drive as a boot drive.

For as long as the errors that accompanied that don't return either.

 

[Colif]

if/when i ever clean install win 11 I will have to check if its on or not.

It is possible it is a setting saved on your roaming profile and therefore since it was turned off on previous install, it is on new one as well. Accounts remember what apps are installed so it won't reinstall things you don't use/want.

 

[iTRiP]

I only have this option on my main pc with windows 11, coming to think about if it was there or not makes me believe it got added with an update and wasn't there after a fresh install.

Just checked now on my second pc where I did the full upgrade from 10 to 11, this pc does not have the option to enable or disable fast startup, in the power options, and I don't think both my pc's are on the same update level yet, might be the reason for the difference.

 

[Colif]

Are you looking in the right place? it doesn't show in settings
its in control panel
power options
left hand column - Choose what the power button does
click on Change settings that are currently unavailable
tick box to turn on/off fast startup (recommended) should be top choice

 

[iTRiP]

Are you looking in the right place? it doesn't show in settings
its in control panel
power options
left hand column - Choose what the power button does
click on Change settings that are currently unavailable
tick box to turn on/off fast startup (recommended) should be top choice

Yes positively sure about this, only have this option on one of two Windows 11 pc's.

 

[Colif]

Okay.

Shame its not removed on installs that have it now. I am up to date.