Sleeping Tabs is a feature in Microsoft Edge, introduced in late 2020, which lets the inactive browser tabs sleep after a specified time to save system resources. This feature is based on Chrome's "freezing" technology, but way better than that. An initial report has shown a 26% reduction in memory usage of the browser.

Now, with Microsoft Edge 100, the company has updated sleeping tabs to enable pages that are sharing a browsing instance with another page.

Windows Fast Startup feature was first introduced in Windows 8 to make your system boot up faster than the normal booting process by saving the current state of the kernel, a few other processes, and drivers into the disk. But that has some adverse issues when you really want to boot up in a clean environment.

If you are in a need to turn off the Fast Startup feature on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, or Windows 11, here is the step-by-step process to guide you.