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Can't do hybrid shutdown, despite enabled fast boot
Hello everyone.
I'm writing this thread because I'm facing a behaviour of my computer I would like to change or fix, but I don't know how I should do any of these. The operating system I use is Windows 10 Home 1709 (Fall Creators Update). The undesired behaviour is that, despire fast boot being enabled in the energy options section of the Control Panel, my PC performs a traditional shutdown when told to shutdown via the Start Menu, which results in an undesirable, slow cold boot when turned back on. However, with previous versions of Windows 10 and even Windows 8/8.1, it worked as expected.
Am I sure I get the problem right? How do I know it performs a traditional, Windows 7-like shutdown instead of the desired one? I execute a PowerShell script with this code after logging in to check information about the boot process. Its result is 0x0, indicating that the system was started via cold boot. Fast boot, on its hand, would yield a result of 0x1. So I'd say something is wrong in the process.
Hiberation works fine, with no problem whatsoever, so it's not a problem of my hardware (powercfg /a reports that fast boot is available). Event Log doesn't show any error, warning or information I could see regarding any "fallback" during hybrid shutdown. Problems started happening shortly (some weeks?) after installing the Fall Creators Update, but I can't tell for sure if the update was the direct cause of it or not. I've tried the following items in order to fix it, with no success so far:Code:Get-WinEvent -ProviderName Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-boot -MaxEvents 10 | Where-Object {$_.id -like "27"} pause
- Disabling hibernation (powercfg /h off), restarting the computer and enabling it back again (powercfg /h on).
- Disabling fast boot, restarting the computer and enabling it back again.
- sfc /scannow and dism /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth. Both completed with no corruption detected, and therefore no corruption fixed.
- Checking any misconfigured Group Policies. There were none I could see responsible for this. I've tried to follow the instructions in here too regarding Group Policies, but I couldn't find any "Require use of fast startup" policy in there. Maybe this could be a problem? I enabled Group Policies in my edition of Windows 10 home by following these instructions, before this issue started happening.
- Shutting down my PC using alternative means to Start Menu, like Alt + F4 on desktop and shutdown /s /hybrid /f /t 0.
- Updating Intel(R) Management Engine Interface drivers using the Device manager (searching in Google revealed that this solved some problems related to misbehaving power state transitions for some users). Currently I'm using the driver version 11.0.5.1189, the latest Windows could find.
- Resetting the configured power plans by running the powercfg -restoredefaultschemes command.
I'd like to add that, during shutdown, the desktop PC behaves a bit differently than it used to, when fast boot worked. When hibernating or doing hybrid shutdown, my computer turns off the screen some seconds (10 or so) before it turns itself off. With "traditional" shutdown, and now even if I try to use hybrid shutdown, the screen turns off almost at the same time as the computer does. That way I can conclude that Windows doesn't even bother trying to perform an hybrid shutdown, but the question is why? How can I fix it, so I can enjoy reduced boot times again, without having to manually log out and shutdown and tell the other computer users (I am the only administrator in the system, by the way, so they couldn't modify any setting regarding this AFAIK) to do the same?
I can provide any additional information, if necessary. Just ask for it.
Thanks in advance.