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Windows 7 Wakeup is Sloth Heresy

Overheal · 2009-11-12 23:27:42

I dont know why. But whenever Windows 7 wakes from either Sleep or Hybrid Sleep its as slow as balls the last several weeks now. Its can take up to 5 minutes for the Hard Disk to settle down. Thing is, win7 was not always like this. Its only in the last month. I've been running it for about 2-3 at this stage and my user…

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I dont know why. But whenever Windows 7 wakes from either Sleep or Hybrid Sleep its as slow as balls the last several weeks now. Its can take up to 5 minutes for the Hard Disk to settle down. Thing is, win7 was not always like this. Its only in the last month. I've been running it for about 2-3 at this stage and my user habits have not changed an iota.

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#2 13-11-2009 1:21am

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Sounds like either windows trying to update itself, antivirus updating/scanning.
Either that or unnecessary programs running on startup? You can check whats running on startup by clicking start-run-msconfig and look at startup tab.

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#3 13-11-2009 3:07am

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try it in save mode to rule out background apps

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