Re: Shutdown vs. Restart

On 2025-03-24 09:04, Steve Hayes wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:16:17 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:
 

Learned recently that in later versions of windows, Shutdown does not
completely shut down windows but Restart does.
>
Is that true in Android too?

 In Windows, I'm pretty sure it is the other way round.
 Restart doesn't completely shut down Windows, but shutdown does.
 And I can't imagaine it being different in Android.

No.  In Windows version <= 7, both completely shut down the PC, and restart then restarts it.  But in versions >= 8, restart completely shuts down the PC before restarting it, but by default shutdown only hibernates it:
As I've posted to various Windows ngs before, Windows versions since 8 have a 'Fast startup' feature enabled by default, whose sole purpose is to reduce boot time, but I have it disabled, because otherwise backing up your system disk using imaging software may not work properly, as I discovered when using Ghost for this.  The shut down state using this is akin to hibernation, and IME it is not safe to image a hibernated OS partition, as on restore this may corrupt other partitions such as data partitions, which logically you'd think should be unaffected.
The following page explains some of this quite well, but I don't think mentions the imaging problem among the reasons to turn it off, whereas for me it's the most important one:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-windows-10-fast-startup
To disable it you need to use the legacy Vista+ Power Control Panel:
     Settings
     System
     Power and sleep
     Additional power settings (takes you to the legacy Power CP)
     Choose what the power buttons do
     Change settings that are currently unavailable
     Disable 'Turn on fast start-up'
     Save changes
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