You can turn on/off this under Power option→choose what the power buttons do→chnge settings that are currently unavailable and mark/unmark the Turn on fast startup option
What is fast startup?
Fast startup is a setting that helps your PC start up faster after shutdown. Windows does this by saving system info to a file upon shutdown. When you start your PC again, Windows uses that system info to resume your PC instead of restarting it.
What is the difference among shutdown, full shutdown and restart?
Simple shutdown saves the session in hibernation mode and when you turn back it on it just loads what you want.
A proper shutdown is doing in Windows 8 by using shutdown /s
from run dialog or from command line.
While a reboot will followed by a full shutdown with "cold boot".
When do I need to do one instead of the other?
Obviously when you need a fast startup then you have choose the shutdown option from charm bar. But if you need a reboot then you have to shut it down using shutdown /s
command. Also shutdown /r
will restart the computer with full shutdown.
You need a full shutdown in case when you have made changes in policies(sometime) or a new hardware.
Would you like to share the objective of your experiment? That way people would be better able to advise. For me, shutdown gives a chance for the electrical / mechanical parts to stop completely. – Guy Thomas – 2012-11-20T10:28:22.270
@GuyThomas thanks for your reply. Updated my question. – Matsemann – 2012-11-20T13:45:54.537
@Matsemann: Thank You!!! Searching upon it coldbooted my info repository too... :D – Viral Jain – 2012-12-03T03:50:20.780