The Truth About Fast Boot and Windows 8

Cold boot, or hybrid hibernation?

Published on January 24, 2014 By RedneckDude In Personal Computing

Truth about the fast boot in 8 being a hybrid hibernate and not a full shutdown.

When running a windows gadget that shows uptime on it, I shutdown. Then start back up, and the uptime meter never stopped running. Even after being "shutdown" for 8 hours.

A restart, however, resets the uptime meter to zero.

All the online info about fast boot says that a restart isn't affected.

This shows that Windows 8, with fast boot enabled, doesn't actually shut down, it goes into hybrid hibernation mode, hence the ability to seemingly boot up in 10 seconds or so, with a UEFI BIOS and UEFI OS.

More info:

How Windows 8 Hybrid Shutdown / Fast Boot feature works

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/how-windows-8-hybrid-shutdown-fast-boot-feature-works/#.

Comments (Page 2)

Seleuceia

on Jan 26, 2014

Amazon is working on a system where they ship items to you before you even buy them...they will anticipate what you want by logging things such as what you search for and how long your mouse hovers over certain items...then, they'll ship these items with automated drones...

Google, quite frankly, is the least of my worries....

starkers

on Jan 26, 2014

kona0197

reply 15

Quoting starkers, reply 14... or that the 2 second boot doesn't give you enough time to prevent Google inserting all sorts of advertising into your emails, both sent and received.

Mark I have yet to see even ONE advert from Google in my Gmail even after using it for years. Do you wear a tin foil hat when you use your computer?

kona, you ought by now to know when I'm just joshing.... er, the 2 second boot. No such thing even on the fastest PC. However, I discovered the tin foil hat was insufficient.

I now use a stainless steel saucepan... fits better and don't blow off like light-weight aluminium foil if there's a breeze.

Seleuceia

reply 16

Google, quite frankly, is the least of my worries....

Same here: I'm more worried about the Pizza Hut spying on me to see which bits I pick out... and KFC sending unwanted home deliveries at 4 in the morning because I Binged 'fowl' when I actually meant foul.

However, all kidding aside, that Amazon thing is a worry... and very presumptuous to say the least. I do not use Amazon for purchases myself, but I know people who do... only when they NEED something AND have the money. This shipping stuff by guesstimates would see them broke or receiving 'pay up or else' notices. No, not a good idea at all, well not for the consumer. How sad, that profit generation comes above all else, including decency and respecting individuals privacy.

Jafo

on Jan 26, 2014

Seleuceia

reply 16

Great....

Amazon is going to ship me Pamela Anderson....

Seleuceia

on Jan 26, 2014

Well played, Jafo, well played.....

JuniorCrooks

on Jan 26, 2014

Amazon is going to ship me Pamela Anderson....[/quote]

lol, you don't want her, she is wore out and broken and would be to hard to return because of all the silicone wind drag which would cause the drones to become unstable in flight.

starkers

on Jan 26, 2014

Jafo

reply 18

Amazon is going to ship me Pamela Anderson.

Eeew! Think I'd rather they shipped Amanda Vanstone... or is that Manstones? The point is, who in their right mind would want her after Tommy Lee's been there... and after all those years on Baywatch, you'd be picking out sand for a few more years yet. You know what it's like when you go to the beach. Sand gets everywhere... in your togs, in your hair, in your... and wiping afterwards feels all gritty.

Nah, if Amazon were to send me somebody, I'd take Anna Silk.

JuniorCrooks

reply 20

and would be to hard to return because....

...she was Kid Rock's plaything and Amazon used a one-way drone to ensure she's never in stock again.

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