Normally super-fast computer takes 5-10 minutes to wake up??

Last night I sat down at my normally super-fast, very responsive HP ENVY Phoenix 810-445qe running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (i7-4790 processor, 32 GB RAM). I wiggled the mouse, expecting the same wake-up as usual, but got no response. I wiggled the mouse a few more times, and tapped the space bar and a few other keys on the keyboard. Nothing. Finally, after several minutes, the screen turned on, and I was greeted with a blue "HP" logo, after which the machine said "Resuming Windows." It then proceeded to go through some kind of boot process that took TWICE as long as an actual boot, including a phase where I got a black screen for a while with just a mouse cursor. (The computer was actually ON when I had initially approached it.) I had done some Windows updates earlier, and also updates for Adobe Acrobat Reader and some recommended updates for several hardware items. I had left a Microsoft Word document open, along with Google Chrome with multiple tabs open, so it wasn't as though nothing was running. And for the record, I have my power management set to Balanced, with the screen going off after 30 minutes and computer sleeping after 45 minutes. It is set to NEVER hibernate. Normally when I sit down at the computer and wiggle the mouse, I get a nearly instantaneous response. Why was my computer so unresponsive and hard to wake up? And more to the point, how can I make sure that this doesn't happen again?

Well, the problems you are having might be that you have new applications(higher requirements) that your iMac can't handle. Try upgrading your memory. you can get the OS in itunes or apple store through purchase history.

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Problem description: (MacBook Pro 15" late 2008, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 installed, no pending updates) computer is running very slow - takes 2-3 minutes to open apps such as Pages, even when no other apps are open. Randomly freezes and becomes unrespo

Problem description:
(MacBook Pro 15” late 2008, OSX Yosemite 10.10.2 installed, no pending updates) computer is running very slow - takes 2-3 minutes to open apps such as Pages, even when no other apps are open. Randomly freezes and becomes unresponsive, requiring forced power down. Randomly logs off. Removed Kodak AIO software via Clean My Mac2, but BonjourAgent still there and requesting access. Cleaned weekly with Clean My Mac2 and running Sophos AntiVirus. 2GB memory installed. Currently 169.99 GB available of 249.2 GB capacity.
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Linc Davis wrote:
Slow performance after installing Yosemite on an older Mac is often caused by inadequate memory. Although you can install the upgrade on a Mac with 2 GB of memory, experience has shown that at least 4 GB is needed for full performance.
Select About This Mac from the Apple menu. If you have less than 4 GB of memory, and your model has upgradable memory, install as much as it can take, or at least that much. Any reputable RAM vendor will have a web form in which you can select the Mac model and be directed to compatible parts.
Memory in the MacBook Air is not upgradable. If that's what you have, you should restore the previous system from a backup, or replace the machine. Ask if you need guidance.
The Etrecheck report clearly shows that SylvieRose has a Macbook Pro, not a Macbook Air and that there are only 2 GB RAM installed. The Etrecheck report can be very informative if one takes the time to examine it.
Ciao.

After firefox loads, the first web pulled in takes 4-5 minutes, then all the rest of the webs work normally. It doesn't matter what web i pull in first. I have norton360.

After Firefox loads the home page (google), the first web site I click in my bookmarks takes 4-6 minutes to come in. Clicking on screen makes it go half-tone until it loads. From then on, all other bookmarks come in fast. It doesn't matter what bookmark I load first, it always takes major minutes. I am using Norton 360 and have even disabled the security and web checking and it made no difference.

Okay, here's what I found out. Followed the above instructions...no joy. I think this maybe needs to be posted in a general OS forum, as I'm thinking this is more about that vs just being about iPhoto/iTunes. Here's what I tried and learned.
A new account allowed iPhoto to open up immediately. However, iTunes seemed a touch slow...not sure if that is just due to it being a new account. So, I deleted that account and moved on to the preferences instructions above.
I removed all preferences and placed them in a "preferences A" folder on the desktop. Launched iPhoto and got the exact same results. Super slow...took forever to open. Took forever to close. Same with iTunes.
So I placed all of the removed preferences back into the folder and decided to start launching and closing apps to see what's affected, what's not. Here are the findings.
iPhoto - The worst of all. Takes 4 minutes to open.
Mail - Opens fine, closes very slowly...apprx 1 minute
Calculator - This now opens incredibly slowly. Also noticed that the blue light below a launching app in the dock that seems to radiate was not radiating immediately....just sort of sat there. About a minutes passes, then it radiates for a second and calculator opens. Quitting is instant
Garageband - Launching is slooooow, quitting is instant.
Lightroom 3 - quitting is slow....quit results in upper-left menu items flashing once, then beach ball for about 30 seconds.
These apps check out perfectly fine with no problems launching or quitting: iCal, Safari, Firefox, Aperture, Photoshop (CS3), Illustrator (CS3), InDesign (CS3), Acrobat, Suitcase, Image Capture, Disk Utility, Text Edit, Photo booth, Final Cut Pro.
So I'm at a loss. This may be more of an OS issue, but figured I'd post here to follow up on the suggestions given. I think I'll pose a question in the OS forums. I'm thinking this might mean boxing up the iMac and making a trip to the genius bar. It's incredibly frustrating.

How long will it take to install Illustrator on a fast computer?

How long will it take to install Illustrator on a fast computer?

Hi Supertec2u2,
For a computer connected to high speed internet the download will take not more than 3 to 5 minutes.
And for an equally fast computer with good processing speed the installation would not take more than 5 minutes.

Need help. I am running a 27 in imac with 16 gigs of ram. Photoshop runs really fast, except when opening files. It takes 5-10 minutes to open even a small file of 1 meg. I cleaned and validated all the fonts and removed all questionable fonts. Reset pref

Need help. I am running a 27 in imac with 16 gigs of ram. Photoshop runs really fast, except when opening files. It takes 5-10 minutes to open even a small file of 1 meg. I cleaned and validated all the fonts and removed all questionable fonts. Reset preferences and still have problem. Slow to open and in force quit "Photoshop not responding" At this point should I uninstall and start over.

What are the performance Preferences?

I performed a software update and the system is installing an update but it has been running for over 24hrs and keeps saying "This may take a few minutes, don't shut down your computer" Can anyone help?

I performed a software update and the system is installing an update but it has been running for over 24hrs and keeps saying "This may take a few minutes, don't shut down your computer" Can anyone help?

Hello cor-el, thanks for your reply. I changed my settings for downloads to desktop and it has appeared on there. When I double click I am asked which program I want to open file. I click firefox and another box "opening install" says I have chosen to open the file which is an application and do I want to save it. This is the only real option so I press save file. I get a box saying this is an executable file which may contain viruses - do you want to run. I press ok and the final box showing C drive file name and desktop appears stating application not found.
This happens the same whenever I try to install.
To my untrained eye the application is not being recognised as an application and I cannot work out how to get it to do that.
My plugin is still showing as out of date.
Is there anything you could suggest. Thanks for your time.

Why is my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 suddenly giving me a gray screen and progress bar after I've turned it on? The progress bar takes 4-5 minutes to complete then signing on with my password and all other operations are normal. Solution? Many thanks.

Why is my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 suddenly giving me a gray screen and progress bar after I've turned it on? The progress bar takes 4-5 minutes to complete then signing on with my password and all other operations are normal. Solution? Many thanks.

It's starting in safe mode > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
First of all, do a PRAM reset. If it doesn't help, open Terminal and type:
sudo nvram boot-args=""

I have an Hp photosmart 7520. It takes a full minute to print a 4x6 photo. Is this normal?

I have an HP Photosmart printer which takes a full minute to print a 4x6 picture. Is ths normal?

This PC World review says 1.5 pages per minute for colour photo, which I imagine refers to A4, so 4 minutes for a 6x4 does not sound right. It won't be a Photoshop thing though. More print driver and OS.
http://www.pcworld.com/product/1243562/7520-e-aio.html

My imac takes about eight minutes to be fully functional after a cold start or from the sleep mode. The hard drive sounds like it has to go through a number of gyrations before being fully loaded. When I first bought the imac start up was much faster

My Imac takes about 8 minutes to be fully functional after a restart or awakened from the sleep mode. I can hear the hard drive making a number of gyrations before it's ready to let me do stuff. This is a 5 year old machine and was much faster in the beginning. Any suggestions?

Impossible to say however it may need more RAM, or if you have been turning it off every day it isn't given the opportunity to run it's daily, weekly and monthly maintenance. This is all done in the background in the middle of the night. I would recommend following the steps in 25 Ways to Speed Up Your Mac until you find the cause of your slowdown.

Lunching computer takes 20 minutes

Hello,
My mom has a MAc Book 2.1 Ghz intel Core Duo with the 10.5.4 system. Two days ago she did a back-up of her hard drive with the last version of Carbon Copy Cloner to an external hard drive, and then, she also lunched Timemachine.
The problem is know when she turns on her computer, it takes about 20 minutes to load and to displays the panel to enter and account.
I verified the hard drive and the hard drive authorization with the Drive Unliterary + a program named "Ony X" and every thing seemed ok. I went in the system preferences / startup disc and selected the internal hard drive (where the system is) but it doesn't change any thing. Does someone have an idea ?
Thanks for reading !

You could also update the system to 10.5.6 with the combo updater after running disk permissions repair in disk utility. Also verify the drive to make sure it is in good shape with disk utility. If it remains slow you can easily reinstall the system from scratch or use an archive and install to see if that changes anything.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate
If you want to remove the login box every time go to the Accounts control panel, click the lock to unlock it with your password. Then click login options with the little house and then select the user's name that you want to auto login rather than disabled.

Computer takes 20 minutes to boot.

My PC takes about 20 minutes to boot, and if it even does boot. It gets stuck at the BIOS start up with the MSI 8Xtreme Series Intel on the black screen, and just sits there.. Is there a way to move some jumpers and reset the BIOS to factory defaults, if that is even the problem. Please if anyone has ANY idea about how to take care of this, im willing to do anything, Im sitting here in college, neededing to write this paper, and my Laptop has a small screen compaired to my desktop. Thanks
-Joe
PS. The PC dosnt even get past that part it seems... Please help!!

Remove all the hardware (PCI cards, USB devices, HDDs, CDROMs etc..) and only keep the bare minimum yuo need (memory, CPU, VGA card).
Don't even connect a mouse and KB to it.
Does it work normally (give you a KB error message probably) ?
Try another KB if it seems ok (and make sure you plug it in the right place), don't overlook any detail in such cases.

My computer takes 5 minute to start

my macbook pro takes almost 5 minutes to start... what can i do to correct this....

First, make sure the boot volume is selected in the Startup Disk preference pane. If it is, continue as follows.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post shutdownStall, spin, or hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

Super slow computer and doesn't shut down

Hi all,
I think it is only fair to come and share with you an issue I had with my 2011 Mac Pro runing on Lion 10.7.3. The computer is just a few months old. For a month or so I started experiencing a SUPER slow computer. To illustrate, it would slow down suddently and would take 10 minutes to give me the About this Mac info. After hard shutdown it would get normal again for a few hours. This happen usually while using Google Docs, and after trouble shooting and not getting anywhere... reseting power management (SMC), etc... Just to test I de-activated the Kaspersky Anti-Virus software for Mac, thinking that it may have been the cause while working on Google Docs... and it work!
One problem solve... but I run into another one. The computer would freeze after shuting down, and the screen would be gray with the little turning wheel... Every day from there I had to do the hard shutdown... not healthy for the computer of course... After re-installing the operating system, going back and forth with Apple Care Specialist (very helpful and nice people), and spending hours figuring the problem out... I decided to un-install completely the Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac, but downloading the 'free' version and using the un-installer from the package... After this my computer shuts down everytime and goes to sleep normally. This saved me from formatting the HD and doing a clean installation of Lion - which was my next step if things didn't work according to Mac support.
I still have the Kaspersky for the parallels side of the computer and that doesn't seem to be an issue. I hope this saves some people the trouble, the frustration and the MANY hours of trying to figure it what's wrong with the computer.
I have read many blogs, and articles and none of them pointed at Kaspersky... I found issues with Parallels, Office for Mac, etc but I guess after the last Lion update thing went south with the anti virus software... and of course my computer! Now we're all happy again!

Something is causing it to not shut down, more than likely some process that refuses to quit. Do all of your applications quit when you shut down or do you have to force quit any of them? You also should look in your console messages and see if perhaps there is a clue there.
When you ran Disk Utility did you get the message that the "drive appears to be o.k." or did you get some other message?
Do you have problems with freezing in general or just when you are installing applications? When you say freezes do you mean you get the spinning beachball or does it freeze and you can't do anything including moving the cursor?
Do you use a lot of widgets in Dashboard? Sometimes they will cause problems. If you have loaded any of them recently you might try removing them and see if that helps with the shutdown issue.

Final Cut takes about 20 minutes to start

Hello guys,
After installing the 10.6.6 update all Final Cut programs (Final Cut Pro, Compressor, Cinema Tools) and all Logic Programs (Logic Pro, Mainstage, Soundtrack Pro) need about 20 minutes to start. After starting the programs they show up as "not responding" in the activity monitor. About 20 minutes later they finally start.
I have got the latest version of Final Cut and (Logic) installed and did a repair permission but the problem still persists.
Does anyone know this problem and how to solve it? I want to avoid reinstalling OS X...
Thank you for your help!

Hello Bengt,
Thank you for your reply! I was afraid that could be the problem, but I just checked my hard drive and found 100GB of free space.
Another strange thing is that if I close Final Cut once it finally runs, and then reopen it, Final Cut will start super fast without problems until the next reboot of the computer...

I purchased a year of adobe cc today. when the screen came up to tell me it was processing my payment, not to hit the "back" button or refresh the page as it could take a few minutes. That was 7 hours ago. The help chat told me it would take 24 hours to p

i purchased a year of adobe cc today. The screen came up to tell me it was processing my payment, not to hit the "back" button or refresh the page as it could take a few minutes. That was 7 hours ago. I contacted the help chat department and was told it would take 24 hours to process. Is this normal?? Why would the screen tell me "a few minutes" if it's actually 24 hours? Has anyone else had this problem? I am so tempted to just refresh the page and try my luck with my credit card canceling a second payment should it happen. THAT might be faster.

Hi stephanie palmer,
We would like to inform you that your order has been placed successfuly and you can strart using the subscription.
Kindly follow the below mentioned link to install products.
Creative Cloud Help | Download, install, update, or uninstall apps
Kindly share the results once done.
Thanks,
Atul Saini

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