How to cancel acceptance of MS's recommended option for best energy efficiency in Windows 11?

[Martin SMC]

My (Acer tc885) desktop has become very slow to start-up recently. This is despite having a small SSD designed to speed the process up, not much on the hard drive and my running utilities to clean up potential problems. Also, I can only turn the computer off now by holding down the power button or by turning off the fast start option in the power section of settings. The recommended option is to turn fast start on which seems to suggest a conflict with the best energy efficiency recommendation. I suspect accepting the recommendation in the question may be the cause of this and I would like to

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