SSD and Windows FastStartup

Infrasonic said:

I've had issues with VM's using sleep/hibernate in the past, and some similar issues in W10 with fast start, but I just use 'restart' for a cold boot if I suspect that's what the issue is.

What would be handy when selecting 'shut down' is if there was an option for fast start / cold boot on next boot or some sort of scheduling so that once a week a cold boot was initiated automatically, overriding fast start.

Alt+f4, shutdown

NavyLCDR said:

Disables both because it also deletes the hiberfil.sys file. That's why I like to use it. Gets rid of a 6.8GB file off my SSD.

Annoyingly offset by the 8GB new virtual disk for updates that you cannot delete even if you turn off its use!

What would be handy when selecting 'shut down' is if there was an option for fast start / cold boot on next boot or some sort of scheduling so that once a week a cold boot was initiated automatically, overriding fast start.

Shift key shutdown does it (a full shutdown when fast startup is enabled so next boot will be a cold one).

Task scheduler can automate a shutdown or restart and cmd line/ batch file desktop shortcuts can be set up for various shutdown states I have since discovered from a bit of judicious Googling.