Win7 PC slow to resume from sleep

I've got an issue with my HTPC taking something like 5 mins to resume from sleep or hibernation. Cold boot is much faster, maybe 3 mins tops, but probably less. I've tried using the windows performance recorder and analyzer, but I'm not seeing my problem. I've been following a guide I found online...

I currently run win7 ultimate 64bit, 8gig ram, intel i7-2600k cpu, and my OS runs on an OCZ SSD (all specs are in my profile) Sleep mode is set to S3 in BIOS, I have hibernation disabled (so no hibernation.sys file on my c drive) When I put my computer to sleep then immediately wake it up,...

Weird problem has started happening out of the blue on my Windows 7 box. Been working fine for a few years, now all of a sudden it has stopped resuming properly from standby. First it starts up but the screen shows nothing - it will stay like this for hours if you let it. So I have to do a...

I just put together a new PC and it's very slow to resume from sleep. I set the BIOS to use S3 sleep. I put the computer into sleep manually and all of the fans/lights go off in a 5 seconds or so. When I resume from sleep it takes about 20 seconds before Windows comes back on. By resume,...

I have been unsing sleep with XP and Vista for years now. Typically it took about a second or 2 to resume. The longest thing was to wait for it to resume the wired ethernet connection. Maybe a couple more seconds. Now with Windows 7 it takes quite a while. I have not timed it yet, but I can...