I put my computer in sleep mode instead of shutting it off. It starts faster, it shuts faster. But sometimes when i wake it up, the audio has hickups as in noises and interruptions. The solution is to stop the two services handling audio (yes, Windows has two services handling audio, cause fuck logic) and start them up again. I do this using a .bat file with the following commands:

net stop Windows Audio
net stop Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
net start Windows Audio Endpoint Builder
net start Windows Audio

Easy.