Preloading user profiles in background

Question

I have noticed that my profile is preloaded before I log in. Not sure when this started happening but is there a way to disable it? I have just installed the V1709 16299.19 build so this may have been included in this. I can find no info on this in the release notes. On a machine with multiple users the user who performs the restart or shutdown has their profile loaded in the background once the machine starts.

I upgraded the system drives to SSDs on my home machines so don’t require the little tweaks that try to speed things up.

Another point. Must the Hybrid Shutdown always enable itself after every major update? I’ve had a few calls from family over the past months with funny issues, but mainly sound problems, where a reboot fixes the issue. They were under the misguided impression the shutting the machine down each night was as good a restart.

Answer 1

"They were under the misguided impression the shutting the machine down each night was as good a restart."

• Tell me about it. Now with fast startup, shutdown really equals "hibernate", every user in the world now has to be re-trained to understand that "reboot" is better than "shutdown+restart".  You could do full shutdowns all day and not understand why the bad driver that needed to reinitialize was never actually getting reloaded, but a actual restart would have fixed it instantly.

The user profile preloading is really the "use my signin info to finish installing updates after a restart" option.  They praised the feature in their insider release notes at some point, but it may not have been clear that this is the related option for what you're seeing.

shutdown.exe command line program also got some new switches to take advantage of (or disable) this new behavior.

Answer 2

I wish I had a SSD in this old Thinkpad S1 Yoga. I got it free without a hard drive and bought a giant cheap drive that is so terribly so the computer is nearly unusable.

Answer 3

Thanks Shawn,

That makes sense. 

Now if only the PC re-sellers pushed SSDs for the main drive instead of selling a machine with a 1 or 2 TB drive as being a good thing.

Thanks

Trev