Typically, I actually hate Home windows. There, I mentioned it.

I’m not entering into all of the the explanation why I’ve a love-hate relationship with this fervently-beloved working system for worry of persecution. I believe that coming near being excommunicated by my colleagues, extra particularly my fellow editors who’re Home windows diehards, is punishment sufficient for daring to even converse in poor health of it.

I’m additionally not about to drop myself into the center of a battle with out ammunition, particularly since I’m not overly enthusiastic about the entire Mac vs Home windows debate. However, to be blunt, the working system makes me need to pull my hair out typically. And, as highly effective as it’s, you have to admit; it has its share of stability issues, seemingly countless record of nugatory previous keys in its registry, and random points that pop up for no obvious motive.

Living proof, this week when my gaming laptop computer, which I additionally use to check and evaluate peripherals, simply upped and determined to restart with out warning or permission on account of a small replace I didn’t even know was taking place. It price me all of the notes I had that day, which I had been typing up on the Notepad however forgot to avoid wasting, as I’m used to the macOS Notes software that, by the way in which, blissfully auto-saves, sparing me from such catastrophes.

That isn’t even the worst of it. Home windows 11 additionally, upon restart, determined that my laptop computer’s Bluetooth can’t sit on the well-liked desk anymore, and it wasn’t going to hassle making it out there for me – a fair greater disaster (forgive my liberal use of the phrase), as each my present mechanical keyboard and my wi-fi mouse are utilizing it to interface with my laptop computer.

And so adopted an infuriating saga of me making an attempt to revive Bluetooth connectivity to my machine – primarily three or so hours of my life wasted.

So many ‘fixes’ 

After ending the replace and restarting my laptop, Home windows 11 oh-so-righteously knowledgeable me that “Bluetooth shouldn’t be out there on this machine. Please attempt utilizing an exterior adapter so as to add Bluetooth functionality to this laptop.” Excuse me? How the duck did that occur when 5 minutes prior, it was working completely high-quality?

It seems, nobody actually is aware of. It’s a type of random points that Home windows out of the blue throws up, and I typically suppose that it is simply mess with us. And whereas people who’ve encountered the identical downside – and there are lots of of them – appear accountable it on a lacking driver or corrupted system recordsdata, nobody can inform you how a easy and supposedly simple replace may cause that driver or these recordsdata to fail within the first place, which suggests it’s actually exhausting to pinpoint the trigger.

And, when you possibly can’t pinpoint the precise reason behind the issue, the plan of assault, it appears, is to attempt a bunch of fixes till you discover the proper one. Proper… as a result of all of us have half a day to spare doing that.

Much more infuriating is the truth that there’s additionally nobody repair for this one difficulty (although admittedly, this additionally occurs on macOS every so often). The frequent ones that work for most individuals aren’t essentially going to be just right for you. One consumer obtained so fed up after making an attempt out a bunch of them with out success that he turned his laptop off, unplugged it, and turned it again on after 10 minutes as a last-ditch try, and whaddya know?! That did the trick!

In fact, when you have my type of luck, that gained’t work both. I additionally tried MakeUseOf.com (opens in new tab)’s 9 (9!) fixes to no avail. 

The one factor that truly labored

The one factor that did work for me – simply because the solar was setting, and I used to be prepared to curve up in a fetal place and bawl myself to sleep – is simply as absurd as the issue itself, which is typical.

The Home windows Membership (opens in new tab) offered the reply: flip off Quick Startup and restart the laptop computer. 

In fact, I’ve already gone by way of the all motions, uninstalling and reinstalling the Bluetooth driver, going by way of the Providers app and restarting all of the Bluetooth-related drivers, and deleting a corrupted USB-related driver – to not point out, RESTARTING MY LAPTOP AFTER EVERY SINGLE STEP (rattling proper, I’m yelling!). So, it’s not precisely as if that alone kissed the boo-boo and made all of it higher. 

Nonetheless, I wouldn’t have guessed that to be the repair had I not completed a bit extra digging. And, none of these issues I simply talked about labored anyway, till I turned off Quick Startup, which was probably enabled throughout the replace. 

The troubled Quick Startup

There are articles courting again to 2017 about how Quick Startup may cause points starting from issue putting in Home windows updates to not having the ability to entry BIOS settings, and easy methods to disable it. First launched with Home windows eight in 2016, it’s imagined to make your PC boot up faster, and would have been a pleasant function if it have been executed correctly. When enabled, the function doesn’t totally shut down your PC and places it into some type of hibernation state as an alternative, permitting you faster entry to your system. 

However clearly, it hasn’t been working properly, and the truth that an replace would possibly allow it with out your information is infuriating. Much more unbelievable is that it’s nonetheless inflicting points, and Microsoft hasn’t bothered fixing it (or utterly eradicating it from the present Home windows iteration).

I’m not going to record all of the the explanation why it’s best to disable Quick Startup in your laptop – that’s one other article for an additional day. Simply do your self a favor, spare your self the ache, and do it. It would even be the proper resolution to different random Home windows points you may encounter sooner or later.