Solved Fast Startup is never used

[lewisdicks]

This has been bothering me for months. I have tried everything including enablingit in power management, changing the hiberbootenabled registry value to 1 and enabled the "require use of fast startup" in group policy editor. I have also turned off and back on the hibernation.sys file using powercfg, and tried to do a hybrid shutdown from the command prompt. Even refreshing windows did not fix it.

Every time i shut my computer down with the power button or on the charms menu, in the event log I always see the boot up mode is 0x0 (i.e. it's always a cold boot).

I would appreciate any help in trying to fix this issue.

 

[Ztruker]

Have you seen this: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

 

[lewisdicks]

Have you seen this: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

Yes I have and it has not done anything

 

[lewisdicks]

Just to let people know that I found the solution. After numerous system restores to try and trace the problem I realised the issue was my third party defragmenter (Iobit Smart Defrag), which I uninstalled and have had no issues since. Bottom line is avoid third party applications for defragging and partitioning as mentioned in a previous thread.