Vista ridiculously unresponsive after hibernation wakeup.

[Lakesidezx]

Hello,

What Im noticing is that Vista home premi is extremely unresponsive after a
hibernation wakeup for a good 5 minutes or so.

The hard drive activity is churning away and makes doing simple tasks like
closing a windows or even deleting an email out of my windows mail inbox not
possible.

It does some tasks fine like allowing me to type, but other things such as
pressing the delete button in my inbox does nothing at all.

Things calm back down after about 5 minutes or so, but this really defeats
the purpose of putting my computer into hibernation, since hibernation is
faster to get me back into windows but if it doesnt allow me to do normal
tasks then it's faster to really just shut down the computer all the way
since this doesnt seem to be happen from a dead shut down.

AMD 64X2 4600+
2GB ram
Windows Vista Home Premium
4GB readyboost device attached.

Any suggestions short of switching back to XP or shutting the computer all
the way off instead of hibernation?

Thanks,

 

[Lakesidezx]

Okay, I might have found the problem.

I think it may have to do with search indexer, and that I have a MS wirless
USB mouse and a external USB hard drive that I use for backups.

When I use the safely remove Hardware in the system tray and disconnect the
USB drive then the performance is back to normal again. My guess on this
(being a layman) is that with search indexer doing it's thing or maybe just
vista doing it's thing, and both a USB external hard drive and a mouse on
the USB port it makes the mouse really sluggish towards registering whenever
I click on a task (such as deleting an email in the inbox).

So maybe I need to just go out and get another SATA internal drive to
replace the USB drive to avoid this.

Unless of course someone else has some suggestions if what Im theorizing is
correct or not.