On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:

So assuming the answer to the previous question was _yes_ ...

Then there are various ways to force a full shutdown either one-off or
permanently. Can you work out what works and submit a documentation
patch to improve things for Windows >= 8?

(1) Try this command: shutdown /s /t 0

Because the /hybrid option is not present it should force a full shutdown.

(2) From the GUI use [Shift] + shutdown option:

(https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2012/10/25/windows-8-windows-server-2012-faster-boot-process/)

For permanently disabling hibernation:

(3) Use: powercfg /hibernate off

(4) Use: reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" /v HiberbootEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f

(3) & (4) might be equivalent, I'm not very clear and don't have a
convenient way to test right now.

Verified with (3) and it seems to work. Still the message is not indicating what is the issue when hibernate is enabled so thank you for opening BZ.

Rich.

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