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by ghurkan 2247 days ago
It's the fast start feature, that writes the RAM content to hard disk and quickly starts back up when the computer is shutdown normally. When the PC is restarted, it starts with a fresh state.

This feature can be toggled in settings and may impact perceived boot time.
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kensai 2247 days ago
But why would this impact installed drivers or applications? I get this warning "shutting down and starting up again" as different from rebooting from new versions of software, usually.
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ghurkan 2246 days ago
It's probably because the current state of drivers and applications is also saved along the RAM content I guess. For example, when you install a new driver and it asks you to reboot in order to start working, if you do it manually by shutting down and starting up, it wouldn't have the same effect as restarting, so driver wouldn't start as well. For recent versions of Windows, you need to select restart instead of shutdown-start up to ensure fresh boot-up.
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