Laptop slower after sleep

[TW]Sponge · 26 Oct 2015 at 15:14

Hi guys. If i'm using my laptop, and I close the lid and re-open it, scrolling web pages is a lot slower and jittery?

Is this common? It's doing my nut in.

Maundie · 26 Oct 2015 at 15:47

Is it just while it 'wakes' up fully and then after a while it's fine or is it continually until you get fed up and reboot it?

Do you have a SSD as the boot drive as if you do I wouldn't bother using sleep and just shut it down?

I haven't used sleep since I put SSDs in my systems as they only take a minute at most to boot fully from off.

[TW]Sponge · 26 Oct 2015 at 15:58

Maundie said:
Is it just while it 'wakes' up fully and then after a while it's fine or is it continually until you get fed up and reboot it?

Do you have a SSD as the boot drive as if you do I wouldn't bother using sleep and just shut it down?

I haven't used sleep since I put SSDs in my systems as they only take a minute at most to boot fully from off.

It's continuous. Yes I do have an SSD but sometimes I just shut the lid to stop the cat from climbing all over it.

Maundie · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:07

Change the power settings to 'do nothing when I close the lid', that would be the quickest and easiest.

Maundie · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:08

I don't actually know what you could do but if you google 'slow wake up from sleep mode' I'm sure there would be many different fixes that could be tried

Armageus · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:11

Maundie said:
Change the power settings to 'do nothing when I close the lid', that would be the quickest and easiest.

Depending on the laptop though that isn't a great idea - some (poorly designed) laptops pull cool air in via the area in between the screen and keyboard, if the lid is shut then that isn't going to work.

Maundie · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:38

Armageus said:
Depending on the laptop though that isn't a great idea - some (poorly designed) laptops pull cool air in via the area in between the screen and keyboard, if the lid is shut then that isn't going to work.

Never seen one of those as I've always been able to close the lid and leave it running, it stems from using docking stations etc.

OP doesn't spec his laptop so we can't look into it anyhow, would be easier to see if it's a common fault if we knew the model.

Armageus · 26 Oct 2015 at 16:48

Maundie said:
Never seen one of those as I've always been able to close the lid and leave it running, it stems from using docking stations etc.

OP doesn't spec his laptop so we can't look into it anyhow, would be easier to see if it's a common fault if we knew the model.

Business class laptops with docking stations tend to be more resilient than normal consumer laptops though.

Certainly a number of P4 era laptops used to be designed with the intakes on top, exhausting via the side/back or even the normally restricted bottom.

[TW]Sponge · 26 Oct 2015 at 17:13

Sorry guys it's a Lenovo Y50-70 if that helps. Windows 10