Re: Much slower resume from standby after Windows Update?

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"Gary Fritz" wrote

I have a pretty new XP system, about 2 months old. So hopefully it hasn't
had enough time to collect large amounts of cruft yet.

I nearly always use Standby mode instead of shutting my system down. In
the past it woke pretty quickly from Standby -- maybe 20sec from "wiggle
the mouse" to "CRT turns on."

A few days ago I installed the latest updates from Windows Update. I
hadn't been there in a few weeks so there were several updates: KB922582,
KB919007, KB920685, KB920872, and KB890830.

Roughly since I installed those updates, my system takes MUCH longer to
resume from standby. It varies (it always has), but as an example this
morning it took almost 2.5 minutes before the CRT turned on. It's getting
so that Standby takes longer than a full boot!

I don't know 100% that the updates caused this, but I think that's when it
started. I probably installed some applications right around that time
too, but I wouldn't expect a normal app to slow down the wakeup process.

What would cause this? Is there a good way for me to find out what's
slowing it down and maybe speed it up again?

Thanks,
Gary


You can uninstall the updates through add / remove programs one at a time to see if one of them is the culprit.

--
Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User]

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