Enable fast boot in windows 8 and above.
hey guys it has been a while since i came to the blog, yes and of course i had exams again..
I own a lenovo laptop of series ideapad with label Y510P. Yeah i got it just a month back. :)
I was thinking of installing a new operating system to the windows 8.1 trying to achieve a dual boot. The operating system that i was trying to install was the great Ubuntu Trusty Tahr the 14th sequel of ubuntu.
Talking about the boot manager of windows 8, It has a pretty different style of booting the operating system.
Usually we have a hard disk that is MBR formatted one. But the laptops coming with windwos 8 and above preloaded come with GPT formatted hdd. The hard disk has many partitions to recover in case the operating system got corrupted.
But still there are several ways to convert the GPT partitions to MBR partitions.
But the conversion may take a day for 1TB hdd s. And yet another restriction is that the hard disk that we are partitioning must not have more than four partitions of those including the recovery partitions.
The most important thing is that the windows 8 and above operating systems use UEFI settings to access the bios and to boot.This makes windows 8 and above boot faster than the earlier editions of windows operating systems.
In addition to that windows 8 and above systems have yet another option called Fastboot.
This function is basically turned on by default. But some laptops don't have them turned on by default because of some reasons (I don't know why. /one of my frn's Acer did not have this feature turned on).
Or this might not be turned on if you installed the windows 8 on any machine that previously ran with a previous release of windows other than windows 8.
So here's how to turn it on.
Step 1:
Bring the charm bar or directly search from the charm bar.
use Win+C for bringing up the charm bar. Or use Win+S to search directly.
Search for "power options"
Step 2:
Look for the power button settings on the left pane.
"Choose what power button does"
Step 3:
Select change settings and acquire admin rights.
Step 4:
Scroll down to the "Shutdown settings"
And check the "Turn on Fast Startup".
And boom you are done.
Why turn on Fast Start up?
Fast startup is another exciting feature comes with the windows 8 editions which will help the users to boot their computer faster than it was.
This feature will help you to turn on and shut down at faster rates than the normal time taken.
This feature is also known as Hybrid boot or Hybrid shutdown.
So when this feature is turned on the computer will perform a partial hibernate.
Alternative methods to enable:
The fast startup feature can be enabled by a bat file download method.
TURN ON FASTBOOT
TURN OF FASTBOOT
The bat files are for the key and value given below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power
WARNING !!
The problems that you might face are:
When hybrid boot is turned on the with dual boot.
A hard disk (both external and internal )connected to the computer with hybrid boot enabled (and if it is shut down) can cause boot problems when connected to other computers.
For some users the computer might restart now and then.
that's IT
Santhosh kumar
@fojoheartthrobe -> Twitter
@fojo.genius -> Facebook
I own a lenovo laptop of series ideapad with label Y510P. Yeah i got it just a month back. :)
I was thinking of installing a new operating system to the windows 8.1 trying to achieve a dual boot. The operating system that i was trying to install was the great Ubuntu Trusty Tahr the 14th sequel of ubuntu.
Talking about the boot manager of windows 8, It has a pretty different style of booting the operating system.
Usually we have a hard disk that is MBR formatted one. But the laptops coming with windwos 8 and above preloaded come with GPT formatted hdd. The hard disk has many partitions to recover in case the operating system got corrupted.
But still there are several ways to convert the GPT partitions to MBR partitions.
But the conversion may take a day for 1TB hdd s. And yet another restriction is that the hard disk that we are partitioning must not have more than four partitions of those including the recovery partitions.
The most important thing is that the windows 8 and above operating systems use UEFI settings to access the bios and to boot.This makes windows 8 and above boot faster than the earlier editions of windows operating systems.
In addition to that windows 8 and above systems have yet another option called Fastboot.
This function is basically turned on by default. But some laptops don't have them turned on by default because of some reasons (I don't know why. /one of my frn's Acer did not have this feature turned on).
Or this might not be turned on if you installed the windows 8 on any machine that previously ran with a previous release of windows other than windows 8.
So here's how to turn it on.
Step 1:
Bring the charm bar or directly search from the charm bar.
use Win+C for bringing up the charm bar. Or use Win+S to search directly.
Search for "power options"
Step 2:
Look for the power button settings on the left pane.
"Choose what power button does"
Step 3:
Select change settings and acquire admin rights.
Step 4:
Scroll down to the "Shutdown settings"
And check the "Turn on Fast Startup".
And boom you are done.
Why turn on Fast Start up?
Fast startup is another exciting feature comes with the windows 8 editions which will help the users to boot their computer faster than it was.
This feature will help you to turn on and shut down at faster rates than the normal time taken.
This feature is also known as Hybrid boot or Hybrid shutdown.
So when this feature is turned on the computer will perform a partial hibernate.
Alternative methods to enable:
The fast startup feature can be enabled by a bat file download method.
TURN ON FASTBOOT
TURN OF FASTBOOT
The bat files are for the key and value given below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power
WARNING !!
The problems that you might face are:
When hybrid boot is turned on the with dual boot.
A hard disk (both external and internal )connected to the computer with hybrid boot enabled (and if it is shut down) can cause boot problems when connected to other computers.
For some users the computer might restart now and then.
that's IT
Santhosh kumar
@fojoheartthrobe -> Twitter
@fojo.genius -> Facebook
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