Change in waking behavior

[Blindman]

Asus laptop X515EA with 20 gigs of RAM running Win 10.

I press the spacebar to bring the machine out of sleep mode and until a couple of days ago, the response was instant. Now I can count off about 5 seconds before anything happens. In computer terms, that's a long time, so I uninstalled the most recent programs and when that didn't work I did a System Restore. No joy.

What could be the cause(s) where should I look first?

Thanks - rev

[jdc2000]

Possibly useful links:

https://www.tenforums.com/windows-up...-too-long.html

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...b-4b05a4f50459

[Kates]

Try checking background apps. Open Task manager, go to the Startup tab and disable unnecessary programs. They may be causing your laptop to take longer to wake from sleep mode.

[Steve R Jones]

Does the laptop get shut down at night (end of day) and or rebooted from time to time?

[Blindman]

Thanks! Yes, I reboot regularly. Two Startup items were enabled that weren't enabled before.