SZ360 standby question

It appears to take a long time from the time I click on the standby button, until the standby screen appears. What should I do or check to be able to speed up the process?My panasonic R4 was much quicker to go to standby.

 

It may be that there are alot of processes running, and so the notebook takes longer to load them all up, when coming out of standby. See if you can prevent some of them startingup, or exit them after you have started. The notebook should be pretty fast coming out of standby. Mine only takes a few seconds. Hope this helps.

 

Try Microsoft Bootvis.
It helped a little for me.
I also notice that overall speed, boot etc... is a lot faster when I have my HDD protection set to low and my safe unlocked(50mb reserved)

 

I was not clear. It takes a long time to go into standby, not recover from it.

 

How long does it take to go into standby? It may be that the hard disk is slow, or may need to be defragmented. Try to defragment it, and also stop some unused programs from starting up. It may help because then the computer doesn't have to put those programs on standby, which takes more time. Hope this helps.

 

I will try the defragging the drive. I presume you mean to stop some of the processes shown in the Task Manager. I have 41 without starting any of my applications.

 

41 processes are okay when in start up. I think it will be best to deframent the drive, and see if it makes any difference.

 

When I get home from work, I will try it and report back.

 

I defragged the HD with the Xp utility, but it still took abourt 12 seconds. Any suggestions as what to do now?

 

12 seconds isn't too bad. It could be a little quicker, but it may your hard disk has a slow spin rate, and so it can't be any faster.

 

AFAIR it was a few seconds on my Panasonc R4. What could be running to slow up the standby, a Vaio or Windows background job?

 

How much RAM do you have, and what processer? I have been doing a bit of reasearch, and it appears that if those components are a bit slow, that may be the problem.

 

Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz with 2 Gb of RAM

 

Your processer and RAM are more than strong enough. This is really strange. It shouldn't happen. Have you checked to see if your notebook has any adware or spyware installed. Also, if anyone else has an SZ, how long does it take you to go into standby?

 

I use Ad-Aware for the spyware. I would be interested in any data in this matter. Does it matter if the fingerprint reader is on or off. as to time to go to standby(I have it off)?
Has anyone noticed any correlation between the time to standby and the length of time since the laptop was rebooted?

 

My SZ680 (2GB RAM, 7200RPM drive) also takes about 10-20 seconds to go into standby.

And from my understanding standby should not write out much data, if any, to disk. RAM is still preserved.

On my previous S170 standby took about 1-2 seconds.

And BTW my hybrid sleep is disable (hybrid sleep is like hibernate in that it writes the memory to disk). You should make sure yours is disabled too.