{"id":14075,"date":"2019-04-10T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14075"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:03:24","slug":"fully-shutdown-windows-10-instead-of-hibernating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fully-shutdown-windows-10-instead-of-hibernating-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fully Shutdown Windows 10 Instead of Hibernating It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 10 enables a feature called Fast Startup (Hybrid Shutdown) that can shut down and boot up your PC much faster than Windows 7 or previous versions of Windows. When you shutdown Windows 10, you&#8217;re actually performing a partial hibernation.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to have your PC completely shut down, you can either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/turn-on-or-off-fast-startup-missing-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">turn off Fast Startup feature<\/a> or use the following methods to fully shutdown Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Perform a Full Shutdown Using Shift Key<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/7-ways-to-restart-or-shut-down-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">many different ways to shutdown Windows 10<\/a> in the past, but you might not realize that Windows 10 is just doing a hybird shutdown by default. If you would like to perform a full shutdown, simply hold down the <strong>SHIFT<\/strong> key on your keyboard and then click the &#8220;<strong>Shut down<\/strong>&#8221; option in the Start Menu, or on the sign-in screen.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fully-shutdown-windows-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"409\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14083\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Perform a Full Shutdown Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just open an elevated Command Prompt or PowerShell window, type the following command and press Enter:<\/p>\n<p><code>shutdown \/s \/f \/t 0<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/do-full-shutdown-with-cmd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14084\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will immediately close any open applications without prompting to save your work, and completely shut down your PC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fast Startup feature can make your computer boot up faster, saving valuable seconds every time you turn on Windows 10. However, if your Windows 10 was installed on a speedy solid-state drive (SSD), Fast Startup don&#8217;t actually make any difference and a full shutdown is recommended.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 10 enables a feature called Fast Startup (Hybrid Shutdown) that can shut down and boot up your PC much faster than Windows 7 or previous versions of Windows. When you shutdown Windows 10, you&#8217;re actually performing a partial hibernation. If you prefer to have your PC completely shut down, you can either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4173,4174],"class_list":["post-14075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-full-shutdown-windows-10","tag-shutdown-windows-10-completely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14075"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14086,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14075\/revisions\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}