Do you really need to sleep/hibernate your PC?

Your shutdown currently isn't working as a "shut down" if you also have "Fast Boot" enabled on your Windows. It's restoring a pre-loaded image each time, which can be "faster" (if you aren't on a fast SSD - Solid State Drive). If you have background apps under Windows, including Steam, they get added into that fast restore image too. Any issues also getting "saved" with them as such to restore next time.

Under your Windows Search/Run box, type "edit power plan" (without the quotes) and select it from the list. On the top menu bar, go back to "Power Options" and ensure "High performance" plan is selected (if not a laptop).

On the left menu select "Choose what the power buttons do"
- When I press the power button = "Shut Down"
- When I press the sleep button = "Sleep"

Click the "Change settings that are currently unavailable".
- Untick "turn on fast startup"

Save changes and reboot.

Now your PC will actually shutdown and reboot cleanly and correctly. You shouldn't notice any booting performance change if you are on SSD, but otherwise if it's slower, you can go back to "turn on fast startup" again and re-enable that. It will recreate a new image next time.

Before doing so:

Right-click Start > Terminal (Admin) and type "sfc /scannow" (without the quote) to run a Windows Resource Protection check. That will scan your critical windows files and attempt to repair any corrupted/missing files.

(Optional) if you don't want sleep/hibernate mode at all affect your PC, type "Powercfg -h off" (without the quotes). That will get rid of your hibernate file completely. You can use "Powercfg -h on" to recreate it and get back sleep mode options.

It's key to make sure Windows files aren't corrupted and then exit out of apps such as Steam to avoid saving their states too, before shutting down / sleeping to recreate a good hibernate file, specially if using fast boot.

Never put any game clients in OS Startup.. Win10/11 don't run them properly that way as they should be launched via Run As Admin. Just wait until you click your user login and the Desktop fully loads and starts the various services and such. Look at Task Manager. Then just right click your desktop shortcut > Run As admin. Why is this so difficult?

If you have 2 GPUs, go to OS Graphics Settings and add Steam and others to this list and select High Performance GPU so they dont use or look at the onboard iGPU

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Never put any game clients in OS Startup.. Win10/11 don't run them properly that way as they should be launched via Run As Admin. Just wait until you click your user login and the Desktop fully loads and starts the various services and such. Look at Task Manager. Then just right click your desktop shortcut > Run As admin. Why is this so difficult?

If you have 2 GPUs, go to OS Graphics Settings and add Steam and others to this list and select High Performance GPU so they dont use or look at the onboard iGPU

It runs them normally till there's an update. Then the saved state of the app is the previous version in the hibernate file for the OS to restore from "fast boot" and/or "sleep mode", while the app is wanting the latest version. This then can corrupt it between the two.

I hate Hibernate and sleep mode for this reason. It doesn't clean restart or shutdown and any issues are kept. I personally do without it, but if you do want to still use it, then be aware of keeping yourself a clean hibernate image. Shutdown won't actually "shut down" as such, a restart can be cleaner.

However, here's a trick:

Hold down the "Shift" key while shutting down to perform a clean shutdown, if still using Hibernate / Fast Boot. Make sure your power button is actually also set to "shut down" rather than anything else, so you can still force shutdown / reboot.

Turn off fast Startup and hibernate its the first thing to do in WinOS, period.

CMD > Run As Admin
POWERCFG -H OFF
Press ENTER
RESTART WinOS

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Turn off fast Startup and hibernate its the first thing to do in WinOS, period.

CMD > Run As Admin
POWERCFG -H OFF
Press ENTER
RESTART WinOS

I agree with this and do so myself, but just understand it will disable your sleep mode. So depends if you want it or not. If you don't, it will also free up a ton of space on your hard drive and even prolong SSD (Solid State Drive) lifespans.

It will get rid of the "Hiberfil.sys" located on your main drive (default - C:\Hiberfil.sys), which can be equal to the size or greater than your RAM. So 32GB if you have 32GB RAM, etc.

If you want it back at any time use:
POWERCFG -H ON

There are also other parameters to the POWERCFG -H such as setting the size of the temp file and such.

If you really have a need for Sleep Mode which I find pretty useless and pointless but if you want then go and just disable Fas Startup in WinOS and leave Hibernation alone.

Sorry, I know this post hasn't been active for over a year, but I'm having the same issue on Windows 10. Seems like switching to 11 won't fix my issue, if it's happening to you too.

I reinstalled Windows 10, and it's still present. I reset the thing, reinstalled steam and nothing else, and it was happening. The Task Manager doesn't open, nor do other programs, eventually the windows menu stops working too.
File explorer still works for whatever reason, though.

It's odd, if I open the Task Manager before I manually start up steam, then it works just fine. The task manager doesn't even have to be open. So I guess opening task manager opens something else that Steam relies on to launch, and without it it just... prevents you from using your computer.

@ qwerts ,i d do a clean Windows install .if this doesnt help your drives may be failing

Never put game launchers in OS startup. Only very critical items should go there or have tbat enabled.

You wait until your Desktop and services loads fully. Then go and right click the game client launcher > Run As admin

This is basic common sense use of WinOS

I know this sounds weird,

run memtest86 upto set 7. See if your computer can shuffle ram.

Then run prime95 test the cpu.

Last 3dmark to test your video card.

If it all passes flash the bios. Update it

All are free, it's my overlooking test suite. It works

Oh. Don't use automated installers for motherboard drivers. Never works right, like aurmoury create from Asus. Causes system instability.

I managed to fix it.
It would seem that my AMD drivers weren't installed properly.

I have no clue how that relates to steam's update screen failing to launch and it disabling most of the computer's programs, or how the presence of a recently opened task manager caused it to start up properly, but reinstalling the AMD drivers did the trick somehow.