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Great advice-- maybe we're a little closer to figuring it out then! For reference, I'm running windows 7 x64. I did a search for "procmon.exe" and ran it. It asked for elevated privileges which I granted. I made sure the logging was running (ctrl e). At first running from an elevated command prompt: xbootmgr -trace hibernate -traceFlags BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER -resultPath C:\TEMP complained that it could not start the trace file so I disabled all my Otaku software (DeskSpace and TopDesk) and ran the above command in a bat file with ping -n 10 localhost as a delay, enabling by ctrl e the log at the moment the xbootmgr command hit. This probably wasn't necessary-- it probably was the Otaku stuff, but I don't know. I'm putting this all down in case someone else runs into the same problems-- it could be this, or it could be running in a bat file, either is worth a shot. At any case, it hibernated and resumed successfully, so I filtered as you said by duration, with a minimum of 1s. I got back the following So is that right? Searchindexer is the problem? I wonder why that would be the case. In any event, it's very close to my delay.. I will try to disable search and let you know how that goes! Thanks MagicAndrei [Edit] I verified that it does indeed speed up hibernation in a huge way by disabling the Windows Search. This is disappointing because while I don't use the search all the time, when I do need to use it I really need to use it. I wonder if this is a common problem, and if there is a way to optimize this a little bit so I can have a decent hibernation resume and at the same time be able to search efficiently.

Yes the computer is completely updated as per manufacturer recommendation (though Sony is really bad at getting updates to end users-- but that's another discussion). I believe it's running in AHCI mode, but I can't verify this because the bios is locked down by the manufacturer. The drives themselves I believe are 2 SSDs running in RAID 0. HDTune reports 164MB/sec with 250MB/sec burst and 0.4ms access time. Is there a run through on how to use process monitor to see what action causes a long duration? I was looking at it but there's a crazy amount of information to sift through. Thanks!

This is an SSD drive.. Do you think it would make a difference? I'd be happy to do so but I've also read that people with SSDs shouldn't defrag. The system also carries 8GB of ram which is a lot. The system is a Z12MGX sony vaio running windows 7 64bit. Thanks for your response btw! You are really a great guy for helping so many people out!

Hi Magic Andre, I've got a really long delay in resuming from hibernation. I've gone ahead and followed your instructions and have generated a dump that I'm not quite sure how to read.. I Here is a snippet from the top of the file generated by: xperf /tti -i "hibernate_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl" -o summary.hibernate.xml -a suspend => [/font] <suspend time_unit="us" time_precision="us" min_reported="0"> <scenario start="150325" duration="316038307" suspend="55633000" resumecritical="2356435" hiberwrite="51923000" hiberpageswritten="315438" hiberread="166322000" resume="3213000"> <queryapps start="150606" duration="0" totalChildrenDuration="0" /> <queryservices start="150606" duration="0" totalChildrenDuration="0" /> <suspendapps start="150606" duration="2762575" totalChildrenDuration="1331394"> <app start="150817" duration="999651" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection\Smc.exe" pid="1692" /> <app start="2588930" duration="84397" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\explorer.exe" pid="3300" /> <app start="2807322" duration="40936" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\explorer.exe" pid="3300" /> <app start="2723695" duration="35175" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\explorer.exe" pid="3300" /> <app start="2706308" duration="17382" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\explorer.exe" pid="3300" /> <app start="2894256" duration="16697" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\LogonUI.exe" pid="17836" /> <app start="2868122" duration="10187" exe="\Device\HarddiskVolume3\Program Files\Sony\VAIO Power Management\SPMgr.exe" pid="2152" /> Given the really long duration in smc.exe, I'm guessing my virus protection is the culprit--? Is that the right interpretation? If so, what can I do about this, short of uninstalling/removing the software? (which actually wouldn't strike me as a wholly bad solution). Are those duration times in milliseconds? Thanks for you help.. This is all very cryptic to me.