Trying to speed up start time on Windows 10 (Dynabook)

GDB2222

What nearly everyone does is they simply close the lid on their laptop when they have finished work. You can change what closing the lid does, but sleep or hibernate are the usually preferred choice. If you choose sleep, then as you know you get an almost instant start up.

Jenni_D

GDB2222 said:

What nearly everyone does is they simply close the lid on their laptop when they have finished work. You can change what closing the lid does, but sleep or hibernate are the usually preferred choice. If you choose sleep, then as you know you get an almost instant start up.

I must be that exception then ... I have only ever once done that quite some time ago on my work laptop and doing this sent it into a hissy fit. 😂 That conditioned me to never try that again. 😊

CoastingHatbox

Jenni_D said:

GDB2222 said:

What nearly everyone does is they simply close the lid on their laptop when they have finished work. You can change what closing the lid does, but sleep or hibernate are the usually preferred choice. If you choose sleep, then as you know you get an almost instant start up.

I must be that exception then ... I have only ever once done that quite some time ago on my work laptop and doing this sent it into a hissy fit. 😂 That conditioned me to never try that again. 😊

Same here.

GDB2222

I wonder what your IT departments did to your machines then? 

Jenni_D

GDB2222 said:

I wonder what your IT departments did to your machines then? 

Who knows ... it was the early days of W7 and of course my employer had their own corporate image. All I know is that the machine went haywire and took hours to recover to a usable state after the lid had been closed while the machine was running. 🤷‍♀️

BTW - locking it first (Ctrl+Al+Del or Winkey+L) before closing the lid has always seemed to be OK for me.

CoastingHatbox

Not a work machine in my case.

On one occasion, I closed the lid expecting a machine to sleep and put it in a laptop bag. Took it out of the laptop bag a few hours later. The case was too hot to touch and the fans were screaming.

I've also been woken up by laptops that were asleep but have woken up to run scheduled tasks etc..

And on being the IT department, machines that are never shutdown are a PITA.
Also, if running any kind of disk encryption (BitLocker etc..), a machine that is asleep but not shutdown has the disk effectively decrypted. (Disk encryption is encryption of data when it is at rest).