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Jedi940   01-11-2008 at 03:21:20 AM

I just got a new laptop and it takes a long time to hibernate. My old laptop running XP only took about 10 seconds to hibernate. Vista takes about 1 min. 10 sec. I can't wait that long!!! How much crap is it saving on the disk? Is there any way to speed this up. Also, it doesn't matter if I have any programs open or not. It still takes that long if nothing is running. I have already tried disabling the windows sidebar as per a suggestion by windows. It didn't help :(

Old laptop:
HP pavilion xh675
1.2 GHZ
512 bm ram
16mb trident cyberblade graphics
XP Home

New laptop
HP pavilion dv6661
AMD turion TL-58 1.9 GHz
2 GB Ram
Geforce 7150 graphics
Vista Ultimate 64

*EDIT*
My thought is that because Vista uses so much more memory, hibernation has that much more to copy to the harddrive. I have already disabled the superfetch service to free up memory. do you think this could be the issue. Any thoughts on other ways to free up memory. I have already disabled some startup programs and services. Any other ideas?


Message edited by Jedi940 on 01-11-2008 at 03:56:45 AM
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pkellmey   01-11-2008 at 01:36:36 PM
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This has less to do with the memory usage than it has to do with the services responding/timing out and communicating with other services for status response before closing out. When you hibernate, it not only saves information about the current running programs, but state information as well. Overall, the more services you are able to disable the quicker it should be. Vista has a lot more services than XP did.

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Jedi940   01-11-2008 at 03:08:27 PM
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No kidding. I was looking at the services and there are many. I was reading some tweaking guides and disabled seven services. I was able to take my memory usage from about 52% of 2GB to about 42%. That brought my hibernation time down to 48 seconds. I am going to try and find more services to disable and hopefully bring that time down to 30 seconds.

------------------------------ GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 3.3) | e6600 @ 3.4 Ghz 425x8 @ 1.42v | Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme | 2GB Corsair XMS2 4-4-4-12 @ 850 Mhz | 2x160GB WD Raid 0 | 2x250GB Segate Raid 1 | evga 8800GTS 320mb 580/1840 | OCZ 700W PSU | 3dMark06 10346 @ 1280 X 1024
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