Shut Down Takes ~5 seconds, Restart Takes ~30 seconds

Thanks for the replies.

Good thing I noticed something...
I restarted the computer. And once it started up, my local time is 12:09 AM. The timestamp of hiberfil.sys before the restart was 3 hours ago... I guess the last time I restarted the computer.



Lemme turn off hibernate.

Then hopefully I can turn it on again as well.

(also BTW, the pagefile.sys (which I disabled before the restart), had the same 3 hours ago Date Modified detail like the hiberfil.sys)...

I hope I'm getting somewhere with this.

So what's the real issue, its not as if people reboot into the BIOS as a matter of routine?

Hearsepilot, no that has nothing to do with it...

but omg noooo! I figured out half the problem! Cross my fingers I really hope I can turn Hibernate back on!!!


I turned off Hibernate using an Admin Command Prompt: powercfg -h off
and then I went to Start -> Restart ... and ooof! Less than 3 seconds did I see the Restarting screen with the spinning dots!!

Oh! I really hope I can turn on Hibernate!!! I use it sometimes!!!
Why is the "Restart" command looking at the Hibernate file?
I should do some research on that.

Cross my fingers. Let's hope I can turn Hibernate on again with no issue.

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Posting back...
I figured out the issue.

First of all, I have no clue how any of this makes ANY logical sense at all...

So I use OldNewExplorer. Yet in that application, you can:

Yet I like my windows to show as simple as possible.
So I found a way to disable both the command bar and the ribbon.

This is what that looks like, which I love so much:

SO very nice and simple, AND I renamed the thing up there to say: Storage Drives

All of this was with the help at this link:
How to remove the ribbon and command bar in Windows 10 - Super User

Yet when I added this line: "<Element padding="rect(0rp,0rp,0rp,-44rp)"/>"
to the dll files for OldNewExplorer, somehow in someway, causes Windows' Restart command to look at the hiberfil.sys and the pagefile.sys (they get modified to the exact time that I restart the computer), yet Shutting Down the computer does not interfere at all.

Can anybody make any sense out of this???

(I currently disabled Hibernate, and disabled the Page File), so I can look at the "Restarting" screen for only 3 seconds instead of 1 minute & 54 seconds.



and a quick question:
Does anyone know if this applies to Windows 10:
Disable File Explorer Command Bar on Windows 11 in Just Three Steps [How To]