[tzs]

I don't remember exactly what settings I set at work, but I set various security settings to paranoid levels. There are three or four things that forget their cached authentication when the system goes to sleep, and so upon wake I get dialogs from those things the next time they need to do something that requires authentication.

I've found that it is actually much less annoying in the morning to start from scratch than to wake from sleep, because when I start from scratch I only have to enter my password once and it covers all of those aforementioned things.

This wasn't the case before I replaced the original hard disk with an SSD. It was then slow enough to boot that I'd find myself waiting with nothing to do.

The SSD is fast enough that it gets through the boot and to the password prompt while I'm still busy unpacking the breakfast I bring in to the office with me, and after I enter the password gets all my startup items launched and ready while I'm still finishing up unpacking breakfast.