Back in Windows 6.66 or WTF it was, there were TWO options: Sleep and Hibernate. Now there’s only Sleep, which I suspect is similar to the old Hibernate. It’s easy to go to Sleep; recovery is more problematic. Why did they get rid of ‘Hibernate’? I suppose it’s to conform with their model: You Click, We Decide.
(Why EVER go to sleep? Where I live is HOT, very hot. I think I’ve lost two laptops to inadequate cooling already.)
I push the power button to recover from Sleep. The machine’s response then is variable — the only constant is that whatever it does will take a LONG time, very long. Eventually I get tired of waiting and push the Enter key. This leads to the … Incorrect Password message. :smack: (Upthread I already explained why I NEED a password even though I don’t WANT one.)
On average recovery from a Sleep takes about four or five times as long after the unwanted Microsoft assault as before.
As another example of SLOW: I go to the “Type here to search” bar and type g-i-m-p. The display shows ‘g’ all by itself. (Hint: Every.Single.Time I type ‘g’ into that search bar, the ‘g’ is followed by ‘imp’.) I wait for a LONG time. Nothing: just the lonely ‘g’ sitting in the search bar. I type ‘i’, stupidly thinking it hadn’t recorded my ‘imp’*. NOW I see “gimpi not found. Search Net for gimpi?” or WTF it is. :smack:
(* - Back at the birth of IBM PC, when 128k was the maximum memory size and RAM was precious, the PC Bios had a keystroke buffer of size 16 or some such. Kilobytes is no longer even a word – it’s all megabytes or gigabytes – but IIRC the keyboard buffer on these boxes is still 16 characters. :smack: )
Of course some of the heinous slowdowns aren’t Microsoft’s fault. For example, when I open a browser tab for Washington Post, I have to remember to blow up the tab before wandering off for a half-hour. Otherwise some (memory-grabbing?) bug in Washington Post’s Javascript will make the laptop almost unusable – it will take several minutes just to get it calm enough to be able to click-X destroy the tab. Have others noticed that? Or do y’all have 4 Gigs of RAM and, unbeknownst to you, 1 Gig is used just for your Washington Post tab? 
I was exaggerating when I said I only use the laptop for YouTubes and SDMB rants. I also produce copious text, e.g. for my hobbyist blogs. 99.9% of this work is done with ‘vim’ whose recovery options are pretty good. My complaint was about the other 0.1% – little doodles, e.g. links for an SDMB post where Notepad is more convenient than an extra click or resizing my xterm->vi window.