Windows users: disable Fast Startup
ToolsWindows Fast Startup (disable)
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The public service announcement is if you run Windows, disable, you will be doing yourself a favor to disable fast startup. Oh, in the power options.
Episode 134: ChapterGPT (episode page, opens in a new tab) 02:33:08 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave's public service announcement: at his day job, a wave of hard-to-pin-down Windows problems (memory leaks, weird printer behavior) was almost always fixed by disabling Fast Startup in the power options ('Choose what the power buttons do').
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Episode 134: ChapterGPT (episode page, opens in a new tab) 02:33:28 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
we have noticed an alarmingly large increase in the number of weird things going on with windows that involve like memory leaks, printers doing weird things, just all kinds of really hard to pin down issues and almost every one of them is solved if you disable fast startup
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