What takes my computer so long to wake up?

On the coast · Apr 18, 2018

What is my laptop doing? I wake it from standby and I start task manager and watch my i7 windows 7 pro with 8 gb ram hit 100% cpu usage as it "wakes up". I look for processes or tasks and see what I consider normal. What takes so much time and ties up my processor? Old guy, so please ask me as if I know little. I ran scans looking for viruses, nothing found. Also ran malwarebytes and ccleaner.

rgd1101 · Apr 18, 2018

slow hdd? cpu overheating?

smashjohn · Apr 18, 2018

I wonder if your computer is 'sleeping' or 'hibernating'. In hibernation, RAM contents get written to the hard drive; upon waking, the computer loads the data from the hard drive back into ram. Entering and exiting hibernation takes a lot longer than entering and exiting sleep mode. You should be able to see how you're set up in your power management settings.

On the coast · Apr 18, 2018

Since the computer is waking up, I do not see how heat would be an issue. It is a traditional HDD, 5400 RPM speed, 1 TB. Only 3 years old, so unlikely. I can hear the HDD begin to spin.

On the coast · Apr 18, 2018

Really like the way you are thinking. I close the laptop lid, so I assume this was "sleep" and not hibernate. I will check. But I still wonder what is running, does a computer take as many resources as it can to start or restart? I suppose this is a dumb question to you guys. It simply makes me wonder if it is normal.

smashjohn · Apr 19, 2018

I think it's pretty normal. You're computer cranks when you fire it back up to get itself to a usable state as quickly as possible. After that, it's should settle down.

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