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Mountain_Mama
Explorer
Explorer
What makes a computer clow to wake up from sleep mode? It’s a Dell Inspiron pc.
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joebedford
Nomad II
Nomad II
Irover wrote:
Run the defragmenter!
If the disk is FAT, yes. If NTFS, not necessary.

Irover
Explorer
Explorer
Run the defragmenter!

2oldman
Explorer
Explorer
Perhaps the disc is getting phull.
"If I'm wearing long pants, I'm too far north" - 2oldman

Chakara
Explorer
Explorer
SSD is amazing for performance - if you have an old spinning disk. 3 years ago I was gonna make work get me a new computer. Instead I installed an SSD and I still use it every day with no issues.
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theoldwizard1
Explorer
Explorer
joebedford wrote:
My Dell comes up in about 2 seconds from sleep but it has an SSD.

Max out your memory and install a SSD. New life blood for old laptops. (Typing on a "middle of the road", 10+ year old laptop with both of those upgrades.)

From the COMMAND prompt run PERFMON /RES

T18skyguy
Explorer
Explorer
Here's an article on how to speed it up.
Retired Anesthetist. LTP. Pilot with mechanic/inspection ratings. Between rigs right now.. Wife and daughter. Four cats which we must obey.

T18skyguy
Explorer
Explorer
If your using a cloud backup, they are usually very resource heavy as well.
Retired Anesthetist. LTP. Pilot with mechanic/inspection ratings. Between rigs right now.. Wife and daughter. Four cats which we must obey.

joebedford
Nomad II
Nomad II
My Dell comes up in about 2 seconds from sleep but it has an SSD. Cold start is slow because of superfetch and virus checks but they don't run on sleep restart.

Did you us task manager to see what's hogging resources?

wa8yxm
Explorer III
Explorer III
Windows as windows ages they slap patch on top of patch on top of patch on top of patch on top of patch.

A patch is like a band aid

Now imagine if you had band-aids on 30 deep.. you'd slowe down too.
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after a semi "nicked" it. Still have the radios
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donn0128
Explorer
Explorer
Bloat ware, virusus, too many programs trying to load.