Hello To All The Mindbenders,
Recently Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Windows 8 which is known as a Windows 8 Hybrid Boot. This allows the user to reduce startup times after shutting down your Windows 8 PC.
What is Hybrid boot ?
Hybrid Boot is a new feature in Windows 8 that takes the Hibernate feature we all know and love and improves upon it to bring us faster boot times. In your PC you have multiple sessions, more specifically you have session 0 which is reserved for the kernel session and session 1 which is normally your user session. In traditional implementations of hibernation when you click hibernate your PC takes everything that it currently has in memory (RAM) and writes it to the hiberfil.sys file on your hard drive, this includes both session 0 and session 1 data.
With Hybrid Boot, instead of hibernating both sessions it only hibernates session 0, it then closes your user session. So now when you start your PC back up, it reads session 0 from hiberfil.sys and puts it back into memory, and starts a new user session for you. The result is dramatically faster boot times, with no effect on our user sessions.
How to Enable or Disable Hybrid Boot ?
By default it is enabled. Well thats the secret as to how windows 8 boots and shutdowns quickly. but if u want to disable it hers how.
-Open Control Panel.
-Navigate to Hardware and Sound, then to the Power Options.
-From the left pane, click : Choose what the power button does.
-Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
Now at the bottom, you will be able to enable or disable hybrid boot.
How to Quickly Do a Full Shutdown without disabling Hybrid boot ?
-Right click on your Desktop and create a new shortcut.
-When you are asked what you would like to create a shortcut to, type the following :
shutdown /s /t 0
-Then give your shortcut a name.
-Once you have created your shortcut, right click on it and head into its properties and click change icon if needed.(optional)
-To do a full shutdown all you need to do is click on the shortcut.
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