What is Fast On mode and how do I get the delayed startup items back to HKCU/../Run?

Ok, one more thing to smooth out on my clean install Win7... I have Easy Settings 2.x and SW Update but no other Samsung bloatware installed.

What is Fast On Mode? (Easy Settings -> Boot Management -> Power button settings -> options: Samsung Fast on mode/Sleep/Ask)

I tried it once and when I pressed the power button it did a log out and put the laptop to sleep mode. When I logged back on some of my startup programs (eg. Skype) were removed from registry entry HKCU/.../Run. Now they start up with a delayed start, which I don't want. The WLAN was not up immediately either. I don't have "Fast Boot Mode" on and I have never used it on this Windows install.

How can I get the delayed startup programs back to their normal positions where Windows controls them?

 

I presume this is Windows 7 since you are using Easy Settings. There is a fast Boot Mode and a Fast On mode. One of them skips checking for bootable devices other than the main storage device which takes a couple of seconds off the startup time. The other fiddles with the loading sequence of various programs that load during the startup to give the impression that Windows has loaded more quickly. Click on the Advanced button in Easy Settings > Boot Management > Boot Optimization. Then click on Settings to get a list of these programs. I presume that any program that is selected is subject to Samsung's boot management (but it may be the other way round). I would add that the Intel 15.8 WiFi driver that was available for a few days about a week ago got the WiFi on my X4C starting from resume faster than previously. However, this version of the driver has since disappeared.

If you have the Series 9 then I recommend you use the Intel Rapid Start Technology for very effective sleep / hibernate / resume that avoids the startup delay. And if you don't have the Series 9 then I recommend you get an SSD.

John

 

Hi apa64, I seem to keep running into you around here

I agree with John's assessment: You must be up against Easy Settings' cunning Boot Optimization feature -- which continues to "steal" your HKCU Run tasks, even after you have disabled the feature.

We discuss it in the latencies thread, first starting with sean.e's post here. I finally stop speculating about it and test it here.

Admittedly, you would not have had this issue if I had not persuaded you to switch to a full installation of Easy Settings 2.x (I remember you were successfully running just dmhkcore with Easy Settings 1.x).

But as John says, it's fixable by disabling all those individual tasks -- thus restoring them to the Run keys where they belong. This FIRST requires you to enable Boot Optimization in order to even access those individual tasks. Once you have successfully disabled those tasks, you will have to reboot in order to save your changes. After reboot you can fully disable Boot Optimization.

It sounds a bit convoluted, but everything works much better once you've done that. Just be careful: If you enable Boot Optimization afterwards, it will immediately "steal" your startup tasks again!

 

Thanks guys, that fixed it. I enabled Boot Optimization in Easy Settings, unchecked all processes in advanced, rebooted as requested and disabled Boot Optimization. Now the startup programs are back where they should be. And I did also install Intel Rapid Start Tech.

Now I think I'll make an image of my C drive and never do the whole process again

 

I have come across this old thread whilst trying to understand hybrid sleep (on an NP550P7C running Win 7).

I've uninstalled Easy Settings for a slim installation, after copying the directory to a new folder. Within the folder is a program hybridshutdown.exe. I assume that this is a hybrid sleep that, in effect, not only puts the PC into normal Sleep mode but also saves the RAM to hiberfil.sys (as in hibernation) - in case there is power failure.

When I run hybridshutdown.exe, a box appears asking me to choose between "Sleep" and "Samsung Fast On Mode". So now I'm confused:

• Why, when running Hyrid Sleep, am I being offered a choice between "Sleep" and "Samsung Fast On Mode"?
• "Fast On mode" as described in this thread doesn't seem to bear any relation to "Fast on Mode" in the context of a popup window as part of a hybrid shutdown operation. Are they two separate things?

 

I have to say I am not familiar with this one. Windows has a built-in Hybrid Sleep feature (which you can enable in Windows power settings) so I wonder what this one adds.

I suspect it is related to Intel Rapid Start (for models with that) since Easy Settings interacts with that feature.

Do keep in mind that most of the features in Easy Settings are designed to work as resident code being activated either on certain keys, from the Control Center, or on certain system events. When Easy Settings is not fully loaded (just sideloading the dmhkcore, and not loading it's services) we have no guarantee that running an EXE in the Easy Settings folder will work properly.

But I am definitely looking forward to hearing what you find out. Maybe there are more nuggets down there