I have an SSD, and it takes off only 3 seconds...15 seconds vs 18 with my Samsung 750 GB HDD. Also, my computer is very slow to go into SM, about 30 seconds. Yours?
about 10-15 to go into sleep mode. Well, if it's not the HD, then maybe the bios? Which are you using? Could it be the amount of taskbar items you have running (i keep my processes very minimal, and do not use an AV). Just throwing ideas out there.
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