Slow Wake Up

[Narong]

I'm running Windows 8.1 and I'm not sure what's going on, but I've ran into this problem pretty often. After putting itself to sleep, my computer is very slow to wake up. The screen wakes up, but the computer gets stuck on the lock screen for a moment before finally shifting the lock screen up and allowing me to type my password. Currently, my computer boots up from a complete shutdown much faster than waking up. Any ideas?

[Enderman]

Don't put it to sleep.

[Narong]

Thanks for the advice, but I'm looking to diagnose the problem instead of just avoiding it.

[sid0195]

I'm running Windows 8.1 and I'm not sure what's going on, but I've ran into this problem pretty often. After putting itself to sleep, my computer is very slow to wake up. The screen wakes up, but the computer gets stuck on the lock screen for a moment before finally shifting the lock screen up and allowing me to type my password. Currently, my computer boots up from a complete shutdown much faster than waking up. Any ideas?

im probably wrong but it could be that when your computer went to sleep you left some background tasks open and they cause the slow wake up. Try closing all the background task that are safe to end (NOT WINDOWS PROCESSES such as windows.exe) and check if you still get the slow wake up

[Narong]

This computer is relatively 'fresh.' Other than drivers, the only things installed are Adobe Creative Cloud, Steam and Chrome. My main 'daily driver' is a Mac and this PC was built mainly for gaming and there's just so many things I'm running into on Windows 8.1 that I've never had to deal with.

 

Also.. I usually close all programs before I get away from the computer. The only background processes that should be running at that time is Steam and Adobe Creative Cloud, I imagine. I don't see why that would be an issue.