Y-Phil posted at 4:24PM Tue, 03 August 2021 - #4424442

Oh speaking of Windows: Poser was slower indeed, after some update, and it got corrected afterwards. But as I have to repeat from time to time: turning off and on Windows 10 is nothing else than putting on pause. To refresh Windows, you'll need to restart it.

That's because of a feature called "Fast Startup." The computer doesn't actually shut down, it goes into a sort of sleep mode. Then when you start up, it just resumes where it was. Saves time, but unlike a real shutdown, it doesn't reset anything and accumulated memory issues etc just keep accumulating.

You can disable Fast Startup. Go to the start menu, click the settings gear, click System, then Power & Sleep on the left. On the right click "Additional power options." On the left click "Choose what the power buttons do." Click "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and then uncheck "Turn on fast startup (recommended)."