Shutting down Windows 10 leaves PC on but display off
If you have ever shutdown an unmodified version of Windows 10 then you’ve been there >> PC still powered on and your display is at a black screen. Then a bit later the PC powers off. From my point, I’d prefer the monitor to stay active until the PC powers off. Shutting down the monitor early is a bit annoying and leads me to believe the PC is off when it’s not.
I’ve created this blog post so I won’t forget how to disable this functionality as I’m sure in time I will forget.
Changing the setting is quite easy:
- In the Control Panel go to Power Options and click on ‘Choose what the power button does’
- From there choose ‘Change Settings that are currently unavailable’
- You should notice the options below are no longer grayed out.
- Remove the checkmark by ‘Turn on fast startup’
After changing these settings my PC shutdown normally, the display stated active, and then the PC powered off. For good measure, I power on my PC I didn’t notice any change in the amount of time for it to startup.
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vmexplorer 
September 20, 2017 at 6:28 pm
If you didn’t notice any change in startup time, then your PC is failing to fast-start. Look in the event viewer for fast-start related issues.
Fast start turns my PC on in 2 seconds, when it fails (or I unplug the power cord) it starts normally.
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September 20, 2017 at 9:05 pm
Thanks for comment and tip around fast-start. 2 Second boot sounds like speed record! At this point, without Fast-start enabled my Windows 10 PC boots in less than 10 seconds which is about the same time with it enabled. So for me, there is no real trade-off but the benefit in not blacking out my screen during shutdown is an option I’ll choose every time.
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