Fast startup is a feature that was first implemented in Windows 8 as Fast Boot. It was carried over to Windows 10, and it remains an option in Windows 11. It's designed to shave seconds off of your PC ...

In practice, Windows Fast Startup is supposed to be helpful, but after disabling it, a lot of things actually got a little better for my computer. I wish I had turned it off sooner, and for some of ...

If the storage space on the C drive is running low, every free gigabyte counts. Windows often occupies more than 25 GB of space for things such as updates, restore points, and cache files. Plus, ...