Learn how to enable or disable Fast Startup using Control Panel, GPEDIT, REGEDIT or CMD in Windows 11/10 and read about this feature here.

Windows 10 has a fast startup feature that, while convenient when booting a PC, might be getting in the way of some other features. Here's what you need to know and ultimately how to disable it.

Before we start For the most part, making the current versions of Windows (especially Vista and Win7) faster will require you to disable some features.

Before we start For the most part, making the current versions of Windows (especially Vista and Win7) faster will require you to disable some features.

Windows 10 should come with fast startup enabled by default, but if your computer is taking a long time to boot, you may need to turn on the feature to speed up the process.

On some Windows 11 computers, the option to disable the Fast Startup feature is unavailable, but we can fix that using the command prompt.

How to start Windows 7 faster If Windows 7 takes more than a minute to start, it may have too many programs that open automatically with the operating system.

But who wants to wait around for Windows to boot from scratch? Windows 10 has an answer to this dilemma with Fast Startup.

Fast startup combines hibernation with shutdown and is designed to allow your computer to boost faster, but if you don't like it, you can disable it.