Hibernation - very slow shut down

Greetings.
my Windows 7 x64 is after one week beginning to slow down when I choose to let it hibernate. I have tried to use your guide to shut Windows down, but that does not seems to help on the hibernation. The real "Shut Down" is OK speed, but it seems like "something" holding it back when hibernating.
The screen goes black after 2-3 seconds, but after that the HDD lamp is blinking in a slow uneven rate for up to 60 seconds before it starts to light fully up for about 5 seconds, and then the PC is cutting power.

How to find the reason for the (about) 60 seconds where it seems to do nothing?

When the system goes into hibernation, it must copy the system state to the hard drive and this takes time depending on the speed of the processor, amount of RAM and what it has to save.

Your time does not seem abnormal to me.

pbcopter said:

When the system goes into hibernation, it must copy the system state to the hard drive and this takes time depending on the speed of the processor, amount of RAM and what it has to save.

Your time does not seem abnormal to me.

It is 8 Gbyte ram that needs write to an SSD, that does not take up to 60 seconds to do that From a clean desktop, with only some small programs running (f.i. Logitech mouseprogram), but no big programs running at all.


I have now tried to disable my BitDefender, and it seems a little bit quicker, but still it takes forever (last test 40 seconds) before starting to write to the SSD.

Is it possible to read a log or other about windows in this hibernation shut-down state?

How to seperate "hibernation shut down" from all other info?

I "might" have found part of my problem using logs --- LOGITECH ---. Can it be true, that Logitech driver for mouse and G25 wheel is causing this?? Seems to me to be fubar, but it helps shutting down these drivers/programs before hibernating.
Does Logitech not know how to build a driver for hibernating?
Or is it an "USB 2/3 driver" problem on my Z77 Intel chipset?
Can I install the newer driver ( USB3.0) from Intel to my MSI Z77 -GD65 mobo instead of the driver from MSI? I'm unsure of this, because I'm also using USB 3 to a "HDD-backup drive", and I need this to be as reliable as possible.

Turn off everything freeloading at Startup except your AV in msconfig>Startup and >Services after Hiding All MS Services. Nothing needs to start with Windows except your AV. If you miss something that much (like a Messenger) go back into its Preferences and turn it on at Startup.

Other Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7

Have tried the sequence now, but windows claims there are nothing wrong, as seen in this picture (the text is Danish)



About Startup programs. It is not a "start-issue", it is only a "hibernation-issue", not even a "shut-down" issue. My PC can now shut down about 4-5 times quicker than it can hibernate.

For startup I have BitDefender Total Security and my Logitech driver for my G15 keyboard and MSI Afterburner loaded. That's it.

You could try a trace and see if you can find anything.
Gathering a Startup, Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, or Reboot Trace