Sleep and Hibernate take longer than Shutdown

I have an HP Pavilion tx 2000 tablet PC. When I shutdown Vista Home Premium 32bit, it takes a few seconds. Putting into sleep mode takes 30+ seconds. Putting into hibernation - even longer. The system comes out of sleep almost instantly. A cold boot versus starting from hibernation takes about the same amount of time - although hibernation seems to take a bit longer.

I have the very same issue on my HP desktop. My wife's IBM IdeaPad has the same issue with hibernate - but her sleep function works perfectly. (All units have Vista Home Premium 32 bit.)

Is hibernate pretty much useless in Vista? If one of the main points of hibernation is to get on and off a PC faster, why does it take longer than a cold boot? With sleep, why does putting my HP pcs to sleep take so long yet my wife's IBM goes off almost instantly? When I spoke to HP, they basically told me that using sleep or hibernate is a waste of time in Vista. Is it Vista or is it HP???

Any help is appreciated.

Dave

Hello snsd, welcome to Vista Forums!




Have a look at the tutorial at the link below to see if there's a resolution to your issues; be sure to post back with an update.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63567-power-options-sleep-mode-problems.html

Thanks Bare Foot Kid. Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Adjusting the settings worked perfectly for Sleep. I'd say my tablet sleeps and wakes up in no more than 1-2 seconds. Hibernation is a completely different story. I can now power down in just under 20 seconds and hibernation takes at least twice that long. I can absolutely live with a 20 second power down - but I loved how fast my XP tablet came out of hibernation. Powering up is running about 50 seconds from a cold boot and hibernation longer than that.

Simple question: has anyone been successful in getting hibernation to work in a reasonable period of time or is it just a basic flaw in Vista? I guess I'll just have to settle for powering down and doing cold boots if hibernation just isn't going to pan out.

Thanks again for any comments.

Dave

Hello again Dave.



Maybe the tutorial at the link below will be some help; thanks for the update.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html?ltr=S