Solved After sleep, hangs for a while

[sverne]

After waking laptop, (Win 7, 64 bit, dual core 2.2Ghz, 4G RAM and 500GHD), it takes about 1-2 minutes for pc to function normally. Before this time, it is as if the pc had a Pentium1 and was struggling to function in the modern world. I have scanned both antivirus and malaware and it is clean.
Is this "normal" and any ideas?

 

[UsernameIssues]

That is not normal.
What antivirus product are you using?
Just as a test. install MSE.

 

[sverne]

Good to know it is not normal. I have Avast free--perhaps it is the culprit. Tried installing MSE yesterday, but file could not install -it is corrupt. (I saw that others had this same problem, also perhaps it's part of the hack problem from a few days ago?)

 

[UsernameIssues]

Do you have access to another computer?
If so, you could use the clean computer to download WDO with a USB flash drive:
What is Windows Defender Offline?

 

[DavidE]

Are you sure it's "Waking from sleep", and not "Resuming from hibernate"?
What you describe is not unusual if it's Resuming from hibernate.
When you Wake the laptop do you see the same screens as you do when you do a cold boot or restart?

Laptops may come pre-configured to use hibernate to minimize battery drain.

If you have a "hack/malware" problem, you need to get that fixed as it could cause any number of problems.

 

[sverne]

I will try Defender offline. In resuming sleep, it starts from the Windows logo instead of the cold boot, so it's quicker. It's just the lag after leaving the pc off for a while. Now I tried it with hybrid sleep and the same problem.

 

[DavidE]

Well, if it is Resuming from hibernate, it's normal to be slower in my experience.

When I Wake from sleep, it's much faster.

If you put it to sleep, and Wake it up after a few seconds of sleeping, is it faster?

 

[sverne]

Duh! I allready had Defender and it scanned clean. (But the MSE file is still corrupted in opening and thus cannot use). It starts up quick if it resumes from a very short sleep, but from overnight it is very laggard.

 

[DavidE]

I don't think you have a problem with sleep/hibernate hangs or wake up times.
In Power Options Advanced Settings, you can set hibernate to "never" and see what that does.
You may not want to test this if you are using battery power only over-nite!
I'm assuming you have the laptop plugged in for power.

You may have a malware problem and I suggest you start a new thread in the SF Security forum for the "MSE corrupted / installation" problem.
You might get better help in that forum for the MSE issue.

You could also run a System File Check to see if any issues are found.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

 

[UsernameIssues]

Duh! I allready had Defender and it scanned clean...

Just to be clear, WDO is not the same as Windows Defender that comes with W7.

 

[sverne]

OK, will now try WDO as I saved it on USB. Did sfc/scannow and it was clean. Have Malawarebytes and Superantispyware; both were clean.
Later, I'll go to the security forum as per DavidW7ncus' suggestion.
Thanks for the advice.

 

[sverne]

PS: How do you run WDO? Should I go to BIOS and set it for USB. I cannot see any executable files for WDO, as I did extract mpan-fex64, but nothing happened.

 

[UsernameIssues]

From a clean computer, you download WDO and run it. The instructions walk you thru the steps to create a USB flash drive that you can boot from. (It will format the USB drive - so get any files off first.)

You could change the BIOS to move the USB ports higher in the boot order than the internal hard disk drive or you could tap F12 while booting to get to get to the boot menu - from there, you should be able to select the USB flash drive.

 

[gregrocker]

Work through the steps in Sleep Mode Problems - Vista Forums

Check the performance log for clues to the hang, establish a Clean Boot, and other Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7.

If prob persists with no resolution try Gathering a Startup, Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernate, or Reboot Trace - Windows 7 Forums

 

[sverne]

Avast did it.

I stopped Avast, installed MSE (file is fixed now), and problem is gone. I know from a previous old laptop Pentium 1) that had Avast, it could not handle the antivirus.

 

[UsernameIssues]

Glad that the problem is gone. Thanks for posting back.