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05-15-2020 04:04 AM
When I turn on my laptop it goes straight to ‘Shutting Down’ screen and remains like that without starting or shutting down.
Please help.
05-15-2020 02:53 PM
Windows 10 comes with a new form of hybrid sleep that is enabled BY DEFAULT. When you turn off the PC, it spends a long time saving your current session to the hard drive so that, when you restart it later, it can read that stuff back to reconfigure your PC where you left off. Disabling this should speed up shutdown but it will make startup longer.
Fast Startup is supposed to dramatically speed up the booting process, but in some PCs, it actually slows it down or causes it to hang. It's also a new form of hibernation known as hybrid sleep -- and this causes battery drain to maintain the state of the PC while turned off.
Disabling Fast Startup might fix booting and shutdown problems.
There are two ways to disable FastStartup in Win10: (1) through the Control Panel, and (2) through an elevated command prompt.
Control Panel - Open Control Panel --> Power Options.
Select "Choose what the power buttons do"
Select "Change settings that are currently unavailable"
At the bottom of the Window, under Shutdown settings, uncheck the box regarding fast startup
Elevated command prompt - run the following command:
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /V HiberbootEnabled /T REG_dWORD /D 0 /F
In both cases, reboot Windows.
NOW, FastStartup is disabled.
See if that helps.
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