In the last few weeks i have been experiencing some slow performance when resuming my laptop from standby. When i used to resume the machine it took roughtly 3-4 seconds for the screen to come up, and then 2-3 more seconds for the keyboard to become responsive. Now i'm dealing with performance that may cause my laptop to take 15-20 seconds to resume from standby, my environment is rather volitial so i'm installing and uninstalling apps rather regularly.
Additionally now that it's winter, i've found the colder my laptop is, the longer it takes to resume. And likewise the longer it has been in standby it, the longer it takes to resume.
My drive is well defragmented, my process load is relatively minimized and i never standby with any applications open. I'm spyware/etc free. Is there a reason why this could occur or am i dealing with window's natural decay? This install is roughly 1 year old now.
I've uninstalled and regcleaned any unneccesary apps from my machine, and most "toy" apps i install are installed to D and not C and i thoroughly wipe them out when they've surpassed their usefulness. I'm relatively certain my HDD is in good shape though i haven't done a confidence test on it in a month or 2.
I'll investigate any driver/chipset updates that there might be for my hardware, and run a chkdsk at sometime of convineince, just asking the community if they know of anything that might cause this to occur.
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My startup is already customized, i wouldn't think this would effect standby since processes are already issued. They are not actively running however. I'm leaning towards fragmentation/windows rot and a bum drive, since my HDD activity LED seems to be fairly solid throughout the resume process.
Another note is that i do not run a pagefile.
After further investigation, I think i may have figured out the cause, though i haven't confirmed it yet. Sifted through some of the usual spots involved in loading windows. It appears my prefetch settings were set for OS only, instead of OS + APP. I only had NTOSBOOT...pf in the prefetch folder, i'm not 100% sure why that would matter since all the pages needed for the applications should be already in memory, but it couldn't hurt and i think this will provide a performance boost that i was missing. I'll get back with you as to whether this solve the problem.
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by: Crash2100Posted on 2006-12-21 at 15:24:10ID: 18184220
Have you tried disabling your startup items with msconfig, then see if that speeds up your resume from standby?