Re: Shutdown vs. Restart

Frank Slootweg, 2025-03-26 16:25:

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

Steve Hayes, 2025-03-24 10:04:
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:16:17 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>
wrote:
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Learned recently that in later versions of windows, Shutdown does not
completely shut down windows but Restart does.
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Is that true in Android too?

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In Windows, I'm pretty sure it is the other way round.
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Restart doesn't completely shut down Windows, but shutdown does.

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No, it's exactly the opposite - because "shutdown" is what people do all
the time when they want turn off their computers. For this very reason
Windows does only hibernate by default - which means it stores the
current RAM content on the SSD so the last state including all open
applications will be restored when turning on the computer the next time.

 
  Sorry, but that's not correct. If you do a 'Shut down' the system will
only save the OS to 'disk', not the open applications. And it will only
save to 'disk' if Fast Startup is enabled (which is the default).

Nitpicking...

  N.B. If your comment was correct, there would be no 'Hibernate' choice
in the 'Power' menu.

My Windows 11 setup does *not* have "hibernate" in the power menu. So
you are wrong as well now? Or did you just forgot, that the choices also
depend on settings?

I talked about the *default* setup of Windows nowadays which is "Fast
Startup". And in this *default* case Windows behaves as described since
the previous poster believed, that "shutdown" will always shutdown
without hibernation and "reboot" will restore the state as it was before
the reboot.

  For an authorative reference:
 
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This is not "authoritative". Only the document of Microsoft is
authoritative:

<https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/weg/delivering-a-great-startup-and-shutdown-experience>


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