This is a brief guide to create a group policy object to disable fast startup in windows. There's no default template for this, so we'll need to push a registry edit. Create a new GPO, then right click and edit. Under computer configuration, go to: **Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry** Right click on this, then select: **New > Registry Item** From here, use the following settings: "Action" should be set to **Update** "Hive" set to **HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE** "Key Path" set to **SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Session Manager\\Power** "Value name" set to **HiberbootEnabled** "Value type" set to **REG_DWORD** "Value data" set to **0** Leave the base at hexadecimal. Your window should look like this: ![[Pasted image 20231121100741.png]] Click "ok". Once this is done, make sure to link the GPO to your domain and enforce it. A quick run of "gpupdate /force" on the target machines should make the changes go through after a few seconds. #server #GPO #regedit #windows #poweroptions