Slow restart of Vista

[FourForsters]

Hi,

I've been reading these strings for a couple weeks now hoping to see my
problem listed. I have an HP dv9623cl with dual 1.9 GHz processors running
Vista Home Premium version 6.0.6000, 2 GB of main memory and about 400 GB of
storage on 3 installed hard drives. You'd think with that kind of processing
and storage power everything would happen 5-10 minutes BEFORE you even
decided to use it.

If I leave it sit or shut the top it goes to sleep (or something like that)
and takes from 3-8 MINUTES to open back up. I have to press the power key to
get it going and then go fix something to eat because it takes forever to get
back to where I can see the desktop. It takes it maybe 5-10 seconds to
connect to the web after the desktop comes active. I am on a wireless network
at home using a high-end LinkSys.

Am I the only one having this problem? Is there something really easy that
I'm just not doing? I am quite hardware oriented, I am an EE and designed
military and telecom computers for 25 years) but have never been really
interested in systems and software. I am a user, not a system type. Probably
dumb but that's the way I started out and just kept at it. Besides, I am
fused from T11 down to L6 in my back and the medicine I take screws my memory
so bad sometimes I can't do what I used to do, so I retired.

I have an older (1 year old) HP laptop running XP with 100 GB of disk, 1 GB
main memory and a .9 GHz processor and have NEVER had these problems. I
really don't like Vista but can't reload with XP because my wife uses it with
an HP Express digital tuner. Some things are just out of my control. Actually
I don't mind it at all but things like this poses problems.

Does anyone have a solution? I would greatly appreciate it.

Many thanks to anyone with suggestions.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would guess the laptop has some software installed that is not working
well with the Vista standard sleep function. You might try a shortcut to
sleep, then close the lid.

To put the system in to Stand by :-

1]Make sure that the system is hibernation disabled.

2]Now Click the Start button, go to Run menu and type in
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState and click OK.
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[weewillie]

I would guess the laptop has some software installed that is not working
well with the Vista standard sleep function. You might try a shortcut to
sleep, then close the lid.

To put the system in to Stand by :-

1]Make sure that the system is hibernation disabled.

2]Now Click the Start button, go to Run menu and type in
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState and click OK.
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Mark L. Ferguson

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Hi,

I've been reading these strings for a couple weeks now hoping to see my
problem listed. I have an HP dv9623cl with dual 1.9 GHz processors running
Vista Home Premium version 6.0.6000, 2 GB of main memory and about 400 GB
of
storage on 3 installed hard drives. You'd think with that kind of
processing
and storage power everything would happen 5-10 minutes BEFORE you even
decided to use it.

If I leave it sit or shut the top it goes to sleep (or something like
that)
and takes from 3-8 MINUTES to open back up. I have to press the power key
to
get it going and then go fix something to eat because it takes forever to
get
back to where I can see the desktop. It takes it maybe 5-10 seconds to
connect to the web after the desktop comes active. I am on a wireless
network
at home using a high-end LinkSys.

Am I the only one having this problem? Is there something really easy that
I'm just not doing? I am quite hardware oriented, I am an EE and designed
military and telecom computers for 25 years) but have never been really
interested in systems and software. I am a user, not a system type.
Probably
dumb but that's the way I started out and just kept at it. Besides, I am
fused from T11 down to L6 in my back and the medicine I take screws my
memory
so bad sometimes I can't do what I used to do, so I retired.

I have an older (1 year old) HP laptop running XP with 100 GB of disk, 1
GB
main memory and a .9 GHz processor and have NEVER had these problems. I
really don't like Vista but can't reload with XP because my wife uses it
with
an HP Express digital tuner. Some things are just out of my control.
Actually
I don't mind it at all but things like this poses problems.

Does anyone have a solution? I would greatly appreciate it.

Many thanks to anyone with suggestions.

I've also got a new HP laptop
and I've had loads of poblms with it and Vista
however I did find the online chat with an HP engineer helpful and it
solved most of my problems
the rest were solved by a very helpful MVP here

 

[FourForsters]

Hi Mark,

I tried what you suggest with greatly different results.

As soon as I press "OK" the screen goes black.
35 seconds later the power goes off. (This happens no matter what I do.)
I then press the power key.
30 seconds later I get a Windows screen telling me that my user is locked.
I click the user name and Windows is active in 5 seconds.

I GREATLY appreciate the clues and I have another question or 2. Is there
any fix that I can do, or have someone else do, that will fix the basic
problem or will I have to go through this routine forever? Someone else with
the same, or similar, problem wrote and said he called HP engineering and
they helped him. I'll do that next unless you have a really slick-fix for me
to try. I'm mostly a hardware engineer but I like to try fixing things
myself.

Well now I'm even more disgusted with Microsoft. It downloaded updates and
told me it would restart my computer. I clicked the "Postpone" button and 10
minutes later it did it anyway, while I was typing this message. Damn, I
hate being wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket and "Protected" from all that
"Messy technical stuff" by someone else.

Thanks again for all the help

Paul

 

[John Barnes]

Click on the time and you can select 4 hours to restart. I agree it is
annoying.

Hi Mark,

I tried what you suggest with greatly different results.

As soon as I press "OK" the screen goes black.
35 seconds later the power goes off. (This happens no matter what I do.)
I then press the power key.
30 seconds later I get a Windows screen telling me that my user is locked.
I click the user name and Windows is active in 5 seconds.

I GREATLY appreciate the clues and I have another question or 2. Is there
any fix that I can do, or have someone else do, that will fix the basic
problem or will I have to go through this routine forever? Someone else
with
the same, or similar, problem wrote and said he called HP engineering and
they helped him. I'll do that next unless you have a really slick-fix for
me
to try. I'm mostly a hardware engineer but I like to try fixing things
myself.

Well now I'm even more disgusted with Microsoft. It downloaded updates
and
told me it would restart my computer. I clicked the "Postpone" button and
10
minutes later it did it anyway, while I was typing this message. Damn, I
hate being wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket and "Protected" from all that
"Messy technical stuff" by someone else.

Thanks again for all the help

Paul

I would guess the laptop has some software installed that is not working
well with the Vista standard sleep function. You might try a shortcut to
sleep, then close the lid.

To put the system in to Stand by :-

1]Make sure that the system is hibernation disabled.

2]Now Click the Start button, go to Run menu and type in
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState and click OK.
--
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Mark L. Ferguson