PC taking long to go to sleep

[puma1]

Hey guys I have a thinkpad t61 with vista and all of a sudden it is taking like 3 minutes plus to go into sleep mode. I checked the event log but nothing jumped out at me as being an issue. Anyone know the best place to look or have any ideas? The only new thing I did with this laptop is patch the uxtheme.dll thats about it...

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

you have too many programs running.

[Ricardo Gil]

I just stopped reading at "vista"

[Scazza]

Maybe if you sing lylabyes to your computer it should go to sleep instantly??

[puma1]

I just stopped reading at "vista"

Ok thank you take your vista don't work newbie mentality somewhere else. Everything has been working great for a year now.

[Ricardo Gil]

Ok thank you take your vista don't work newbie mentality somewhere else. Everything has been working great for a year now.

I just did a clean Vista install this weekend on an almost brand new laptop. I almost lost it with frustration.

It just shouldn't happen on a 2.0Ghz C2D with 2GB of RAM Vaio.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

my Vista works fine.

try running ccleaner.

@ricardo: did you by chance load SP1 on it?

[puma1]

updated the acpi drivers noticed a new one came out from lenovo.. sleep now takes less than 20 seconds.. awesome!

[Ricardo Gil]

my Vista works fine.

try running ccleaner.

@ricardo: did you by chance load SP1 on it?

Yeah, after putting all the drivers in, took me an hour though. File operations are just so damn slow. It took me a minute to unzip a ~2MB file, the i/o speed was being rated in bytes/s, I have to say I laughed in despair after a while.

I also installed some Sony utilities so the keyboard shortcut keys would work. When the computer booted it just kept asking me if I trusted them. Even unchecking the option to always ask for that file didn't work. Well, it did sometimes, but after any kind of windows update reboot, it would just ask me again. Pure frustration.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

did you have 1gb of ram?

did you run msconfig for that annoying popup?

[Ricardo Gil]

did you have 1gb of ram?

did you run msconfig for that annoying popup?

The laptop has 2GB of ram, and the popup seemed to "reset" its behavior after every windows update, don't know if msconfig could do anything about it. Anyway, it's my sister's computer so now it's her problem. Thanks for the help anyway.

@puma1:

This isn't about newbie mentality, I stand all day long in front of a computer and I'm happy to say I use XP. A few years back Windows2000 was my "solid OS", only after SP2 was I able to get good stability out of XP. I guess Vista will get there eventually, but right now I find it truly frustrating in some aspects.

For me (as a programmer), the real show stopper in Vista is the slow file I/O. I simply can't imagine myself compiling something with that kind of speed. Maybe it works for you, fine, just don't assume everyone that critiques vista negatively is a "vista basher".

Edited September 8, 2008 by Ricardo Gil