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Laptop "hibernate" mode is SLOW upon wake up....

GoodEnough

GoodEnough

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I don't use my laptop much.
Only every few weeks.
If I hibernate the laptop for a week or two...
when I resume, it's SLOW AS DEATH.
Takes like 10 mins. to boot.
Each keypress takes like 30 seconds to register.
PC is jammed like no PC ever gets jammed.

I usually have to hard shut it off, and reboot.

What is going on?
 
Do you understand what Hiberfil.sys entails? It requires the rebuild of everything you had going when it hibernated. It all has to be read from a hibernation file on the drive. Basically, the restore speed dpends on what was going on when hibernation was invoked. Only you can know that.
 
Also that hibernate file could be fragmented which slows down the process by another 10% depending on how often you defrag your hard drive. Which is why many save up for a solid state drive because they do not need to be defragged at all because the read time is the sam no matter the location.
 
If you have an SSD, and you only use the laptop once a week or so, hibernation really makes no sense. The cold boot time of a laptop with SSD is ways faster than a hibernation restore. Since it involves a lot of writes, hibernation is really not beneficial to an SSD.
 
I hibernate because I leave a dozen unread browser Windows open. Can't shut down without bookmarking it all.
 
And therein is the reason for the long hibernation restore - it has to reopen all those unread browser windows. Seems like a user procedure issue, not hardware or software. Hiberfil.sys is created by Windows. It really creates unnecessary wear and tear on your SSD.
 
Running the trim command can help at time. Some SSD need to run the trim command manually and some have the OS do the trimming for them and you get performance back from that as well.
 
GoodEnough said:
How? Chrome?
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Not sure why but this did not work on a VM with Win8.1. I am quite certain this must be the setting.
It did work on a VM running Windows Vista though.

Click the customize button then click Settings, then click "Continue where you left off".
 
ArisVer said:
Not sure why but this did not work on a VM with Win8.1. I am quite certain this must be the setting.
It did work on a VM running Windows Vista though.

Click the customize button then click Settings, then click "Continue where you left off".
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Is this a chrome setting? Won't all Windows close when I shut down? How does it know the last session?
 
GoodEnough said:
Is this a chrome setting? Won't all Windows close when I shut down? How does it know the last session?
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Yes, that's the setting for Chrome. Other browsers have similar settings as well. I think it stores the bookmarks of the pages you have opened when you close the browser, and after you open the browser again it just loads the pages.

Edit. It worked now in Win8.1 as well.
 
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How does "Continue where you left off" even get implemented?
It will re-open the tabs that were open when you closed the window?
That means it will always startup with the last URL you visited,
even if you closed that page?
 
GoodEnough said:
How does "Continue where you left off" even get implemented?
It will re-open the tabs that were open when you closed the window?
That means it will always startup with the last URL you visited,
even if you closed that page?
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When you close chrome with several tabs open, chrome will open those same sites (tabs) the next time you launch it. If you close it with only your current home page open, it will appear to open the same as before.

If you are only hibernating to keep your pages open, this sounds like a good alternative for you.
 
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