Windows 8.1 shutdown options re: Bios

Am aware that 8 and its relation to Bios is different than other Windows versions. If I shutdown or restart from Win8 interface, the intro has a nice screen for selection of operating system to my dual-boot.
If shut down through command, it appears to actually shutdown with following boot going through Bios and I have the Bios selection for operating system.
In the first case, where Windows starts quickly and sort of by-passes Bios - seems to me that the user is not getting an "actual shutdown" and that the machine is performing hibernating function of some sort. For this reason, I have always
performed a full shutdown since the release of 8.
My question is: What is the best way to shut down the machine?
For security, I do not believe in leaving a computer running day and night. For functionality, I do not believe in Sleep, Hibernate, or anything else that gets between me and a running OS.
Since there is a possibility that I might function fine and even better with shutdowns from within the 8 UI ... I'm looking for some honest feedback on that. If have no information, which way do you shutdown and restart your Windows 8/8.1?
Other than quicker boot-times, is there any programming advantage to using the shutdown within the 8 UI? How big are the vulnerabilities, when any next machine start-up is set to run within those new Bios standards? Because it's kind of like
planting a bomb every time you shut down, and just hoping it doesn't explode on you the next day when you start up. Will it default back to the original Bios startup if the other one fails?

Hi,
You can create a small batch script that allows you shutdown /restart or put the computer to sleep.
refer to the following scripts :
1. First, open notepad and type :
shutdown -s -f -t 0
1.1 save the file and name it : PowerOff.cmd
2. Open notepad and type :
shutdown -r -f -t 0
2.1 save the file and name it : Restart.cmd
3. Open notepad and type :
shutdown -h
3.1 save the file and name it : StandBy.cmd
Place theses scripts files on your Desktop, then you just have to double clic on :
PowerOff.cmd : to power off your computer
Restart.cmd : to restart your computer
Standby.cmd : to put the computer to sleep
A+
HK.
Hicham KADIRI | Just Another IT Guy

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