The downside to this option is that not all processes are disabled from the previous session. 'By default, Windows 10 enables the Fast Startup option when a user clicks Shut Down, ' explains Rob Tidrow, the chief operations officer of Richmond Community Schools in Richmond, Indiana, and co-editor of the reference manual 'Windows 10 Bible.' (He's also written numerous other how-to books on software and technology.) 'This option allows Windows 10 to start up faster the next time a user starts Windows.
But in Windows 8 and 10, that changed because of a new feature called Fast Startup, which is designed to eliminate what used to be that irritatingly long process of getting your PC up and running. In older versions of Windows, Restart and Shut Down did the same thing, closing down programs and powering off the machine.
