How to re-enable hibernation in windows 8 and 10

The sleep mode or sleep state is a low-power state available in the Windows operating system, including Windows 10. This low-power sleep mode comes in handy, especially for notebook and tablet users to extend the battery life.

What’s the sleep mode in Windows 10?

Unlike Hibernation, when a device is put into sleep mode or state, it will draw a very small amount of power, but you will be able to resume your work very quickly (almost instantly) by pressing any key on the keyboard, moving the mouse/touchpad, or pressing the power button.

Since the sleep state draws a small amount of power, on a battery-powered device, if the battery level falls below the critical level, Windows automatically puts the device into hibernation mode (if enabled) to prevent any data loss.

With default settings, your PC might go to the sleep mode after 15 (when on battery) or 30 (when plugged in) minutes of inactivity. This also means that, at times, your Windows 10 PC might go to sleep mode when a program is running in the background, resulting in loss of data.

For instance, your Windows 10 PC might go to sleep mode when a file is being downloaded via a web browser, forcing you to start the download all over again if the server from where you are downloading the file doesn’t offer resume support.

If you find that the sleep mode is not so useful, you can either configure your PC to enter the sleep mode after a long period of user inactivity or make your Windows 10 PC never sleep.

Follow the given below instructions to enable or disable sleep mode in Windows 10.

Method 1

Enable or disable sleep mode

Step 1: Open the Settings app. To do so, click on the Settings app icon on the Start menu or simultaneously press Windows and I keys.

Step 2: Click the first option titled System.

Step 3: On the resulting page, click Power & Sleep. Now, under the Sleep section, you will see two options:

# On battery power, PC goes to sleep after

# When plugged in, PC goes to sleep after

For both options, expand the drop-down menu and select Never. That’s it! Your PC will never go to sleep mode again. Here, as you can see in the above picture, you can configure how long should Windows 10 wait before putting the computer to sleep mode.

Note that changes made to the sleep mode will apply to the current power plan only. To make changes to other power plans, switch to the different power plans by right-clicking the battery icon in the system tray, clicking Power Options, and then selecting a power plan from the list.

Once a different power plan is selected, repeat above mentioned steps to configure or disable sleep mode for that plan.

Method 2

Another way to make your Windows 10 PC never sleep

Step 1: Type Power Options in the Start menu or taskbar search box and then press Enter to open the classic Power Options window. Alternatively, open the Control Panel, change the View by to Small icons, and then click Power Options.

Step 2: On the left pane, click Change when the computer sleeps link to open Edit plan settings window.

Step 3: Here, in the drop-down menus next to Put the computer to sleep, select Never for On battery and Plugged in. Click the Save changes button. That’s it!

Note that, instead of selecting Never, selecting any other number will enable the sleep mode in Windows 10.

IMPORTANT: You need to repeat the steps mentioned above for all power plans. That is, if you have disabled sleep mode for Power Saver plan, you will need to do the same for Balanced and other plans (if you have created) to avoid Windows 10 putting your PC into the sleep mode while on these power plans.

Your Windows 10 computer is set to go to sleep after a certain amount of time in order to help conserve power or your laptop’s batteries. However, it can be annoying if your computer is going to sleep when you don’t want it to. Here’s how to turn off sleep mode and disable hibernation on your Windows 10 PC.

How to Turn Off Sleep Mode on Windows 10

To turn off sleep mode on a Windows 10 PC, go to Settings > System > Power & sleep. Then select the drop-down menu under Sleep and choose Never. If you’re using a laptop, do this for battery mode as well.

1. Click the magnifying glass icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen. This is next to the Windows 10 logo.
2. Then type power & sleep into the search bar and click Open. You can also hit Enter on your keyboard.
3. Finally, click the drop-down box under Sleep and change it to Never. Your computer will not enter sleep mode anymore. You can also choose to adjust the number of minutes it takes before your computer goes to sleep after becoming idle.

Note: You will only see two drop-down menus under Sleep if you are using a laptop.

How to Disable Hibernation on a Windows 10 PC

While most people are familiar with the Windows 10 sleep mode, you might not know your computer also has a hibernation mode.

Hibernation mode is a cross between sleep mode and turning your computer off. With hibernation mode enabled, you can turn your computer off, and pick up right where you left off immediately. That means all your apps will open the way they were when you left them, and your computer won’t use any power.

The downside is that hibernation mode does use up some of the storage space on your computer, which is equivalent to around 75 percent of your installed RAM capacity. Thankfully, it is easy to disable the hibernation mode.

1. Click the magnifying glass icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen. This is next to the Windows 10 logo.
2. Then type Command Prompt into the search bar.
3. Next, click Run as administrator.
4. Then type powercfg.exe /hibernate offinto the Command Prompt.
5. Finally, hit Enter on your keyboard. This will disable the hibernation mode on your computer.

Note: You do not want to disable hibernation on a laptop because it is needed to save your state when the battery runs out.

Now that you know how to turn off sleep mode on a Windows 10 PC, check out our guide on how to turn off sleep mode on a Mac here.

By Amanda | Follow | Last Updated January 09, 2020

Summary :

There are 3 Power button options available – Sleep, Hibernate and Shut down. This post makes a comparison about these three modes and gives instructions on how to sleep, hibernate and shut down Windows 10 PC. In addition, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you recover the lost data.

Quick Navigation :

• Sleep vs Hibernate vs Shut down
• How to Set Sleep and Hibernate Mode
• User Comments

When you’ve finished working with your Windows 10 PC and no longer need to use it, you can choose to shut it down, or set it in Sleep or Hibernate mode. Under different situation, you may choose different mode considering saving power, battery life or convenience.

Sleep vs Hibernate vs Shut down

Sleep, Hibernate and Shut down are 3 options (apart from Restart) when you click the Power button which is right above the Start button. Each option carries both advantages and disadvantages.

In order to choose the best mode for your Windows 10 PC, you’d better learn about the differences of them.

Sleep is a rather convenient mode for users who want to quickly start working with PC again after leaving for a short period of time. It still consumes some power which is less than when the PC is awake, because it supports running background processes.

Hibernate is nearly the same as Shut down, but it will save your place in Windows before shutting the PC down. Besides, Hibernate mode can be seen as an advanced Sleep. If you are working with lots of documents and want to quickly open them to continue when you come back after one hour or two, Hibernate is your best choice.

Compared with Sleep, Hibernate consumes less power and directly saves the contents of RAM on the hard drive to avoid any chances of data loss. However, Hibernate requires more time to wake up your PC than Sleep mode.

Shut down requires to close all the opened applications and documents, clears the contents of RAM and removes temporary files. It will completely shut the PC down, which meaning it uses no power, but it will take more time to start up again.

Frequent fluctuation of power will largely affect the life span of the battery. Therefore, you’d better choose the Sleep or Hibernate mode if you want to come back to continue working on your PC after a short period of time.

However, you need to shut down your PC at least once a week to stop temporary files building up and make sure updates are installed.

How to Set Sleep and Hibernate Mode

Sometimes, you may find that a certain mode is missing when you click the Power button. Just as the following screenshot shows.

How to set a certain mode as displayed when you click the Power button? Let’s see the detailed steps.

Step 1: Click Start button and click Settings button to open the Setting window. Alternatively, you can press Windows + I shortcut key to open it directly.

Step 2: Choose System, and select Power & Sleep from the pop-up window. Then you need to click Additional power settings.

Step 3: When you enter the following window, click Choose what the power buttons do.

Step 4: Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.

Step 5: Check Hibernate and click Save changes. On the contrary, if you don’t want a certain mode to show in Power menu, just uncheck it and save the change to disable it.

You can do the same operation for Sleep mode.

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If you’re a fan of hibernating your computer, you’ve likely noticed that neither Windows 8 or Windows 10 offer hibernate as a default power menu option. Don’t worry, it’s really simple to bring the hibernate option back.

Readers unfamiliar with hibernation mode may be curious why so many people miss the feature and want it back. While we’ve written about it in detail before, a short summary is in order.

You’re probably familiar with sleep mode, which puts your computer into a low-power state that keeps the computer’s state in memory, allows you to start it back up very quickly.

Hibernation, as the name implies, is like the deep version of sleep mode. Instead of keeping the computer’s state in memory, though, hibernation mode writes the computer’s state to the hard drive. This allows it to turn off completely, using even less power than sleep mode. Back in the day, this was a bit of a performance hit–it would take longer to start your computer up and resume working. But with modern and speedy solid-state drives going into and out of hibernation is almost as snappy as sleep mode, so there are very few downsides.

Shutting down entirely means your laptop won’t run out of juice if you leave it asleep in your bag, which is great. (Or, if you put your computer in hibernation and lose power for a few days, you’ll still be able to resume working later.)

How to Enable Hibernation Mode

Sound useful? Who knows why the hibernation option is disabled by default in Windows 8 and 10, but thankfully, enabling it is easy.

In Windows 8, you can press Windows+I to pull up the “Settings” menu, then select “Control Panel” and then “Power Options”.

Windows 10 users also press Windows+I, but instead select “System”, then “Power and Sleep” from the left hand navigation panel, and finally “Additional power settings” at the bottom of the Power and Sleep menu.

It’s far more efficient in both versions of Windows, however, to simply press WIN+R to pull up the run dialog box, type “powercfg.cpl”, and press enter.

This command is direct shortcut to the “Power Options” menu. From here onward, the steps are absolutely identical for both operating systems.

Select “Choose what the power buttons down” from the left hand navigation panel.

At the top of the window, click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable” to enable the options we need to toggle.

Scroll to the bottom of the window and check “Hibernate: Show in Power menu.” and then click “Save changes”.

Go ahead and close the Power Options control panel. The changes are effective immediately; no reboot required.

Now when you select the power options menu you’ll see the power configuration entry you crave: “Hibernate”. Give it a click and Windows will save the memory to your hard disk, shut down completely, and wait for you to return to exactly where you left off.

Introduction

This article describes how to disable and then re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows.

Warning You may lose data if you make hibernation unavailable and a power loss occurs while the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. When you make hibernation unavailable, hybrid sleep does not work.

More Information

The Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed. The Windows Kernel Power Manager reserves this file when you install Windows. The size of this file is approximately equal to how much random access memory (RAM) is installed on the computer.

The computer uses the Hiberfil.sys file to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. If this file is not present, the computer cannot hibernate.

Resolution

To make hibernation unavailable, follow these steps:

Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.

Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.

When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.

At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.

Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

To make hibernation available, follow these steps:

Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.

Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.

When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.

At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and then press Enter.

Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

This article describes how to disable and then re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows.

Applies to: В Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 – all editions, Windows Server 2016, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Original KB number: В 920730

You may lose data if you make hibernation unavailable and a power loss occurs while the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. When you make hibernation unavailable, hybrid sleep does not work.

How to make hibernation unavailable

1. Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.
2. Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then select Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, select Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off , and then press Enter.
5. Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

How to make hibernation available

1. Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.
2. Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then select Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, select Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on , and then press Enter.
5. Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

More information

The Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed. The Windows Kernel Power Manager reserves this file when you install Windows. The size of this file is approximately equal to how much random access memory (RAM) is installed on the computer.

The computer uses the Hiberfil.sys file to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. If this file is not present, the computer cannot hibernate.

Reference

To add the Hibernate option to Start menu, see the Hibernate section of Shut down, sleep, or hibernate your PC.

Hibernation Explained

Hibernation is a power-saving mode that your Windows PC can enter when not in use. It is a state in which the Windows PC saves its current state and shuts down so that it no longer consumes power. The most striking thing about te hibernation process is that when the PC is turned on again, all open files and programs are restored to the same state they were before the hibernation was effected.

If you are a Windows 8 or 10 PC user one thing you may have noticed is that the Power menu, when you finally reach it, has no Hibernation option. The only available options are Sleep, Shut down, or Restart. Why it is not visible by default on the Power menu is outside the scope of this write-up.

Gratefully, it is fairly simple to enable the very valuable Hibernate option on either the Windows 8 or 10 PC.

Enabling the Hibernate Option in Windows 8 and 10

1. Access your system’s power settings. You can do this any number of ways but this is my preferred method: In Windows 8, press Windows+I to pull up the Settings menu, then select Control Panel and then Power Options. Windows 10 users may also press Windows+I, but instead, select System, then Power and Sleep from the left-hand navigation panel, and finally Additional power settings at the bottom of the Power and Sleep menu. It is far more efficient in both versions of Windows, however, to simply press WIN+R to pull up the run dialog box, then type “powercfg.cpl”, and press enter. This command is a direct shortcut to the Power Options menu. From here onward, the steps are absolutely identical for both operating systems.
2. Click Choose what the power buttons do.
3. Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.
4. Scroll down to the bottom of that window to find the Shutdown settings section and then click the box next to Hibernate to enable the option.
5. Finally, click on Save settings and you will now find the Hibernate option under the Power menu on Start or Win+X menu.

Now, when you go to power down your Windows 8 or 10 PC, you will see the Hibernate option among the list of choices. Interestingly, in that same System Settings window (step 3), you can choose Hibernate for any of the Power and Sleep button settings options. In other words, if you want your system to hibernate when you press the power button or close the lid, this is where you can configure that setting.

The Hibernate Mode

The Hibernate mode in Windows is a mix of Shutdown and Sleep modes. When you press the Hibernate button in Power options button in Windows Start Menu, all of the contents of the RAM are moved to the Hard Drive, and stored into a file called hiberfil.sys. This means that Windows saves all of the data currently active on your system in the hiberfil.sys, and then shuts down your system. When you (re)start your system, Windows recovers your previous session from the hibernation file hiberfil.sys, and turns it into an active session.

Hibernate is Shutdown but with saved contents just like in Sleep mode. During booting, the system will detect that it was hibernated the last time, and will restore the contents of the previous session from the hiberfil.sys at the start of the system.

In order to make use of the Hibernate feature, by default Windows reserves 75% of the total amount of RAM installed on the computer for the hibernation file called hiberfil.sys.

How to Disable or Enable Hibernation in Windows

Step 1: Open the Windows Power User Menu by pressing Windows + X keys together.

Step 2: Click on the Command Prompt (Admin) item in the menu. This will open the Windows Command Prompt with Administrative privileges.

Step 3: If Hibernation is currently enabled, and you can want to disable it then type the following command in the Command Prompt window:

powercfg.exe /hibernate off

Press Enter.

Step 4: If Hibernation is currently disabled, and you can want to enable it then type the following command in the Command Prompt window:

powercfg.exe /hibernate on

Press Enter.

Step 5: Close the Command Prompt window, and restart the computer to implement changes.

This article describes how to disable and then re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows.

Applies to: В Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 – all editions, Windows Server 2016, Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Original KB number: В 920730

You may lose data if you make hibernation unavailable and a power loss occurs while the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. When you make hibernation unavailable, hybrid sleep does not work.

How to make hibernation unavailable

1. Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.
2. Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then select Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, select Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off , and then press Enter.
5. Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

How to make hibernation available

1. Press the Windows button on the keyboard to open Start menu or Start screen.
2. Search for cmd. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then select Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, select Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on , and then press Enter.
5. Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

More information

The Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed. The Windows Kernel Power Manager reserves this file when you install Windows. The size of this file is approximately equal to how much random access memory (RAM) is installed on the computer.

The computer uses the Hiberfil.sys file to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. If this file is not present, the computer cannot hibernate.

Reference

To add the Hibernate option to Start menu, see the Hibernate section of Shut down, sleep, or hibernate your PC.

To enable Hibernate on Windows 10, follow the steps below:

• Go to Windows Settings(Windows Key + I).
• Select System > Power & Sleep > Additional power settings.
• Now click on Choose what the power button, and select Change settings that are currently unavailable option.
• Under the Shutdown Settings, select hibernate checkbox > Save changes.

Normally when you think of moving away from their PC for a while, a shutdown is probably the first thing that comes to mind before you actually leave the desk. Sleep mode might probably be a close second. But what do you do if you’d like to resume your work from where you left it, instead of starting off everything from scratch?

Although you can utilize sleep mode in this case, if battery or power consumption is a concern, you’d be better off using the Windows Hibernate.

In what follows, we’ll take a deep dive into the best ways to hibernate your Windows computer. So, let’s jump right in.

What is Windows Hibernate?

Before we dive into the actual tutorial about enabling Windows hibernate, though, let’s quickly go over what exactly Hibernation is and how it operates.

An alternate to default shutdown, Windows Hibernate is a way to save your current work and Windows state on your hard drive for retrieval later on. So, when you turn on your PC again, the information stored on your drive is transferred back to your main memory, and you can then resume your work from where you left off.

This is where it differs from Sleep, which saves all your data in the RAM. And, in contrast to a normal Shutdown, Hibernate gets your PC back to where it was in just a few seconds. So, you can think of it as the best of Shutdown and Sleep.

If you’re curious, you can check out a previous post of ours, where we cover the difference between hibernate, sleep and shutdown.

Therefore, as a rule, choose Hibernate over Shutdown (or Sleep) when you’re moving away from your screen for a short span of time (and you also need to be economical with your battery.)

Note: As the main reason for using Hibernate is to cut back on the excess battery loss, Microsoft has limited this feature mostly to laptops. So, if you’re running a Windows desktop computer and can’t find the option to hibernate, that’s probably the main reason, as Microsoft says on their blog here.

How to enable Hibernate in Windows 10

By default, Hibernate is not available at the Power option in Start menu search bar in Windows 10; you have to manually enable it instead. Here’s how:

1. Open the Windows Settings(Windows key + I), and select System > Power & Sleep > Additional power settings.
2. Click on Choose what the power button does and click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
3. Under the Shutdown settings, select the Hibernate checkbox and click on Save Changes.

Now, when you navigate to the Power button again, you will have the option to Hibernate your Windows 10, right along with Shutdown and Sleep. From here, you can easily hibernate your Windows 10.

And that’s it, folks. As soon as you click on Hibernate, all of your current work will be saved into the hard drive and your PC will turn off.

Press the power button on your laptop to bring back your laptop from hibernation.

How to enable Hibernate in Windows 11

Again, the process to hibernate Windows 11 is fundamentally similar to Windows 10 hibernation process from above, even if the specifics differ by a little.

Here, too, you’ll have to turn on Hibernation for it to show up at the power option.

To get started, go to the Start menu search bar, type in ‘control panel,’ and select the Best match.

1. On the Control Panel, select System and Security.
2. From there, click on Change what the power buttons do.
3. Now click on Change Settings that are currently unavailable.
4. Under the Shutdown settings section, check the hibernate option, and click on Save changes.

This will enable the Hibernate settings on your Windows 11 PC. Click on the Power button at Start menu search bar, and you’ll see the option for Hibernate available on your screen.

As soon as you click on the above option, your Windows 11 will go into hibernation. To get back in your workflow again, all you have to do is press the power button as you do at a normal Windows start up.

Enabling Hibernate in Windows 10/11

Using Windows Hibernate is your best bet if you are going away from your computer for a while. Instead of a turning it off altogether and starting off from scratch, the Windows Hibernate will simply save your settings to the secondary drive and bring it up whenever the computer is powered up again.

This is especially true if you have some unfinished project that you want to resume as soon as you come back to your computer.

Last month I explained how to shut down Windows 8, an option you wouldn’t expect to require step-by-step instruction. And yet.

One thing you might have noticed, especially if you’re a laptop user, is that the Power menu, once you finally reach it, has no Hibernate option. You can click Sleep, Shut down, or Restart, but if you want to hibernate your machine, well, you’re outta luck.

Why on earth would Microsoft remove this option? I have no idea. It probably came from the same logic-defying committee that decided eliminating the Start button was a smart move. (Seriously, if you can think of any good reason Microsoft removed Hibernate from Windows 8, I’d love to hear it. I’ll keep an open mind, promise.)

Thankfully, it’s fairly simple to restore that valuable option. Here’s how:

1. You’ll need to access your system’s power settings, which you can do any number of ways. My preferred method: press Win-W (that’s the Windows key and the letter w) to bring up the Settings Search menu, then type power.

2. Click Change what the power buttons do.

3. Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.

4. Scroll down to the bottom of that window to find the “Shutdown settings” section.

5. Click the box next to Hibernate to enable the option.

6. Click Save changes.

Presto! Now, when you go to power down your system, you’ll see the Hibernate option in your list of choices. Also, in that same System Settings window (step 4), you can choose Hibernate for any of the “Power and sleep buttons and lid settings” options.

In other words, if you want your system to hibernate when you press the power button or close the lid, this is where you can configure that setting. Good stuff!

Hibernation as its name implies is the ‘deeper’ version of Sleep mode. Instead of keeping apps running in RAM, Hibernate mode transfers all data to the hard drive.

• How to turn Hibernate hibernation on Windows 10
• Turn off, turn on Hibernate mode in Windows 7

This allows the computer to shut down completely and use no power compared to Sleep mode.

In the past, this mode had a slight impact on performance, it would take longer to start the computer and continue working. But with today’s modern solid state drives – SSDs, shutting down and starting up with Hibernate hibernation is very flexible, as fast as Sleep mode, so there are almost no downsides.

With this mode, your computer can completely shut down while keeping the open applications and programs the next time you boot. All data will be quickly transferred from the hard drive to RAM in seconds, making the job much smoother and saving much more time.

If you do not understand what Hibernate is, you can refer to the following article: Difference between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows.

How to enable Hibernate mode on Windows 8 and 10

Hibernate hibernation option is disabled by default in Windows 8 and 10 , but fortunately enabling it is easy.

Step 1: In Windows 8, you can press the shortcut Windows + I to open the Settings menu , then select Control Panel and select ‘Power Options’.

For Windows 10 press as well Windows + I , but instead select System then select Power and Sleep from the left navigation panel and finally click Additional power settings.

However I have a quick way that can be applied to both versions of Windows, just press the key combination WIN + R to pull up the Run dialog then type ‘ powercfg.cpl ‘ and hit enter.

This command is a direct shortcut to the Power Options settings menu . From here on out, the steps are exactly the same on both operating systems.

Step 2: Choose ‘ Choose what the power buttons down ‘ from the left navigation panel.

Step 3: At the top of the window, click on ‘ Change settings that are currently unavailable ‘.

Step 4: Scroll to the bottom of the window and check ‘ Hibernate: Show in Power menu ‘ then click the Save changes button .

Finally, close the Power Options panel . This change takes effect immediately after that, you don’t need to restart your computer.

Note: To turn off this mode, just uncheck Hibernate and tap Save changes again.

Now when you press the Power button in the Start menu , we will see the Hibernate option under Sleep. Left click on it then Windows will move the applications running on RAM and hard drive, shut down completely and wait for you to restart the computer -> display exactly open applications and programs.

The tutorial on how to enable / disable Hibernate mode on Windows 10 here is the end. I believe that when using this mode, the process of working on your Windows computer will save a considerable amount of time. If your friends are also using Windows, do not hesitate to share how to enable and use this hibernation with them.

It’s a well-known fact that both Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 boot significantly faster than earlier versions of Windows, including Windows 7. So, in Windows 10 and 8, you can opt for the shut down option instead of hibernation. That said, in most cases, hibernation is faster than shut down.

What is hibernation in Windows?

If you are new to the hibernation feature, it’s a power-saving state where Windows saves the system state and memory contents to a file on disk (hiberfil.sys), then reads that file back on system resume to restore the contents to memory. Off all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation uses the least amount of power.

On most Windows 10 and 8 PCs, the hibernation feature is turned on by default but it’s not added to the power menu by default. When installing Windows, if there is sufficient space to create hiberfil.sys file on the drive where you installed Windows operating system, Windows automatically creates hiberfil.sys file but it just doesn’t add the Hibernate option to the power button. This is also because, Fast startup is turned on by default in both Windows 10 and Windows 8, and the feature uses hiberfil.sys file which is created only when the hibernate feature is turned on.

Enable or disable hibernation in Windows 10/8

You can enable the hibernate option in Windows 10 and Windows 8 by following the simple procedure given below:

Step 1: Launch Power Options in Control Panel. To do this, you can follow one of the methods given below:

a. Type Windows + R keys to launch Run dialog box. In the Run dialog, type powercfg.cpl and then Enter key to launch Power Options. This is the simplest method to open Power Options in Windows 8.

b. Type Power Options in Start search and then press Enter key.

OR

b. Right-click on the Start button to open the power user menu, and then click Power Options.

Step 2: In the left pane of the Power Options window, click on Choose what the power buttons do to open System Settings.

Step 3: Under System Settings, click on Change settings that are currently unavailable to see settings to enable Sleep, Hibernate and Lock options. Check the box named Show Hibernate and click Save Changes button.

Open Power Options menu to see the Hibernate option. Good luck!

If Show Hibernate option is not appearing, it’s because the Hibernate feature is not enabled on your PC. Follow the given below directions to turn on the Hibernation feature.

Step 4: Type CMD in Start search to view Command Prompt in search results, right-click on Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.

Click Yes button when you see the User Account Control prompt.

Step 5: In the Command Prompt, type the following command and then press Enter key to turn on the feature.

Powercfg /hibernate on

Step 6: Close the Command Prompt and then follow instructions in Step 1, 2 and 3 to add the Hibernate option to the power menu.

Hibernate is more or less a similar function to sleep. It differs primarily in the fact that during sleep, temporary information about the state of the system is saved to RAM, and during hibernation on the hard disk.

Therefore, restarting the computer after sleep takes much less time, because all data is restored immediately from RAM, although in the event of a temporary power failure, the data from RAM will not be restored and the system will start in the traditional way.

It is worth using the hibernation function if you want to be 100% sure that your computer will be restored to the state in which you turned it off. However, if you are sure that the battery in your laptop is charged or you are not afraid of a temporary loss of power, then use the sleep function, because restoring the computer to work from this mode is much faster.

How to enable or disable hibernation in Windows 7?

By default, the hibernation feature in Windows is disabled, you can enable it in several ways. The easiest way to do this is via the command line.

Go to START or use the Windows shortcut key + R , and then type CMD .

A new window will appear in which you must enter the following command to enable hibernation.

In case you want to turn off hibernation, just enter the following command.

powercfg / hibernate off

Turn Off Hibernation

As you can see, enabling or disabling hibernation in Windows 7 is not complicated. It is also worth adding that by disabling hibernation on the C drive: we will save approximately 5GB of free space.

Hibernation is a Windows feature that allows the computer to save the state of all running programs before shutting down fully. The computer can then resume from the saved state when it turns on again. Hibernation is designed to be a middle-ground between shutting down and going to sleep. The computer powers down as if it was shut down but saves its state as if it were asleep.

All data stored on the RAM when the computer hibernates is saved to the hard drive. This means a certain amount of space has to be left free on the hard drive at all times, just in case the computer hibernates at some point. This space is allocated to the “Hiberfil.sys” file. If you come across it – it’s that allocation amount. The size of Hiberfil.sys is approximately equal to the amount of RAM available in your system. So, if you’ve got 16GBs of RAM, 16GBs of your hard drive are unusable for this purpose.

You can reclaim that hard drive space if you want to by disabling the hibernation feature. To disable hibernation, you need to launch command prompt as an administrator by pressing the Windows key and then searching for “Command prompt”. Right-click, and then click “Run as Administrator”. If you are prompted to confirm that you really want to take this action, click “Yes” to continue.

Once in the command prompt, type the command “powercfg.exe /hibernate off” without the quotation marks and then press enter.

In an administrative command prompt, run the command “powercfg.exe /hibernate off”.

The command doesn’t return any output, so you won’t see any sort of reaction even if it works properly. Once the command has been run, you can close the command prompt by clicking the “X” in the top right corner. Please be careful and don’t otherwise type anything into the command prompt – it’s very easy to accidentally change something important!

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Hibernate is when Windows 10 saves an image of the Windows kernel and drivers into memory (C:\hiberfil.sys) when your computer sleeps and then loads that hiberfile to resume rather than restart your computer. In this tutorial, we show you how to enable or disable hibernate.

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1: Enable or Disable Hibernate With PowerShell

Disable Hibernate – powercfg -h off

Enable Hibernate – powercfg -h on

Note – Once you disable hibernate, the hiberfil.sys will automatically be deleted, freeing up drive space.

Open your advanced power options and verify Critical battery action and Low battery action is not set to Hibernate.

2: Enable or Disable Hibernate in Settings

Go to Advanced Power Options and expand Sleep > Hibernate after.

Disable Hibernate – Settings (Minutes) Never

Enable Hibernate – Settings (Minutes) set time to hibernate

Enable or Disable Hibernate in the Registry

Double-click on Disable Hibernate.reg to disable or Enable Hibernate.reg to enable. Click twice when prompted.

When you enable Hibernate, you’ll need to go to the Advanced Power settings and choose the Hibernate time, as explained in Step 2 above.

Contents:

Hibernate Mode Windows 11/10 Overview

For many of you, hibernate mode is no more than sleep mode. As we all know that there are three power options, namely Shut Down, Sleep and Restart, but few of you know there is another useful power option opened to you — Hibernate.

Unlike shut down or sleep mode, Hibernate can save your disk in the hard drive with a file named hiberfil.sys file. And at the same time, Hibernate mode can track all your activities on Windows 10 and keep them for you.

For instance, it will keep the browser on in a way as you have used before. So you can easily find that it is very convenient to let Hibernate on especially when you have to leave for a long time.

No matter you want to enable when you want to use it or disable it, view here for methods.

How to Enable Hibernate on Windows 11/10?

Whether you are in very much need to turn on the Hibernate mode in case the files would be lost when the power battery runs out, the next way is useful for you.

1. Right click Start Button and select Command Prompt (Administrator).

Here if you cannot find Command Prompt in Start options, you can choose to search Command Prompt in the search box to get it out.

2. Type or copy powercfg.exe /hibernate on into the Command Prompt window.

3. Press Enter and you can enable or turn on Hibernate successfully.

With the Hibernate mode on, whenever you come back to use your PC, there is no need for you to restart some of the programs or software. And what is more, you can fast start up your PC in hibernate mode.

How to Disable Hibernate on Windows 11/10?

But since Hibernate mode is enabled on by default, maybe some of you want to disable or turn it off due to some reasons.

To disable it you just need to type powercfg.exe /hibernate off in Command Prompt.

So you can see how simple it is to disable Hibernate mode on Windows 10.

After you have enabled Hibernate on Windows 10, if you are confused about or interested in how to change hibernate settings, keep going on to find the way towards it.

How Fix Hibernate Option Missing from Start Menu on Windows 11/10?

In some cases, even if you enabled the Hibernate mode with reference to the steps above, Hibernate is not showing in Power options on Windows 10. And you can only see Sleep, Shut down, and Restart.

Therefore, there is a high probability that you need to get the most of Advanced SystemCare, a powerful and professional system, file, game, and disk optimizer. It will strive to automatically fix Hibernate disappeared from shutdown using Win Fix toolbox.

1. Download, install and run Advanced SystemCare.

2. Then find out Toolbox and hit Win Fix to install it right away.

3. In IOit Win Fix, locate Advanced Fix > Additional.

4. Under Additional, on the right side, click Fix to Enable Hibernate and Hybrid Sleep feature. Fix Hibernate is missing from Shutdown.

In some sense, you will have not only added the Hibernate mode to the start menu but also fixed Hibernate disappeared from Windows 10.

On the other hand, if you are unable to enable Hibernate on Windows 10, at this moment, you can turn on Hibernation on Windows 10. If possible, Sleep missing from power options will perish as well.

How to Change Hibernation Settings on Windows 11/10?

The Hibernation mode on Windows 10 is designed for the time when you want to leave your computer for a long time but have no interest in shutting it down.

For most cases, Windows 10 will automatically go into Hibernation mode once your PC power is rather low and it will save back your files at the same time, so there is no need for you to worry about your sources would lose.

As Hibernate is enabled by default, you may want to simply turn off it.

1. Under Change setting for power plan window, click Change advanced power settings.

Here as the default power plan is Balanced, you are under the Change settings for power plan for Balanced.

2. Scroll down the find Sleep and choose to expand Hibernate After.

Here choose Never, it means that your PC Hibernation mode is disabled.

Here you can also choose to turn Hibernate on, you can set a time for it and after that time, Windows 10 will automatically go into Hibernate mode.

From the procedures, you can know exactly about the way how to fall into or get out the Hibernation settings and how long you would like to set your PC to hibernate since you now operate your PC.

Here it is also often reported that Windows users have difficulties in finding Hibernate in the Power menu. They can only find Shut down, Sleep and Restart. To fix this Hibernation missing from Start menu, move ahead.

How to Add Hibernate to Shutdown Menu for Windows 11/10?

To simply execute hibernate mode, put it on Start menu is necessary, for which you can press Hibernate button as you want to use it.

To add Hibernate mode to power menu for the purpose of turning it on easily, go as the followed.

Power and sleep settings > Additional power settings > Choose what the power buttons do > Show Hibernate in Power menu.

After that, you can see the Hibernate in power menu and use it from here as well. If you want to hide Hibernate from the Shutdown menu, uncheck the box.

From the above explanation, you can clearly know how to enable or disable hibernate mode on Windows 10. It is to say, you now are able to turn on turn off Hibernate mode to change hibernate settings as quickly as you can. And to make it more convenient, it is advised that you add the Hibernate on Shutdown menu.

If your Hibernate button is missing, then we will see how you can enable the Hibernate option in Windows 11/10, using CMD, Control Panel, our Ultimate Windows Tweaker, or Windows Registry.

The Hibernate feature allows the Windows operating system to save and write the running state to a hard disk, before powering off the computer. Of all the power-saving states in Windows, hibernation is the most economical, as it uses the least amount of power. You can use it to save computer energy when you know you won’t be using your laptop for an extended period and won’t get an opportunity to charge the battery anytime soon.

The Hibernate feature uses the Hiberfil. sys file. The Hiberfil.sys hidden system file is located in the root folder of the drive where the operating system is installed. The Windows Kernel Power Manager reserves this file when you install Windows. The size of this file is approximately equal to how much random access memory (RAM) is installed on the computer. The computer uses the Hiberfil. sys file to store a copy of the system memory on the hard disk when the hybrid sleep setting is turned on. If this file is not present, the computer cannot hibernate.

Enable Hibernate in Windows 11/10

The path for enabling the Hibernate option has changed a bit in Windows 10/8/7 from what it was in Windows XP, earlier. If you have been having trouble finding the Hibernate option in Windows, this short tutorial will help you out.

Hibernate Option is Missing

The hibernate button can disappear after a disk cleanup, or if you delete the hibernate file. So, if you cannot find the Hibernate button or if the Hibernate Option is Missing, you may do any of the following:

1. Using POWERCFG command
2. Use ControlPanel
3. Tweak Registry
4. Use Ultimate Windows Tweaker.

1] Using POWERCFG command

Type cmd in Windows Start menu search bar. Right-click on cmd and select ‘Run as Administrator’ to open an elevated Command Prompt. In Windows 10, you may simply use the WinX menu and select Command Prompt (Admin).

Running the following command will display the available Sleet States on your system:

Enable Hibernate

Disable Hibernate

To turn hibernation off, type instead

2] Use Control Panel

In Windows 11/10, by default, the Hibernate option is not activated in the Power Button options. Users may notice that there is no hibernate option in Windows 11/10/8.1. You can enable it and show the Hibernate button, by using the Control Panel.

Follow this post on how to activate and display Hibernate in Power Button options and how to change Power Button options.

3] Tweak Registry

You can also tweak the Windows Registry to enable or disable Hibernate. To do so navigate to the following key:

Give HibernateEnabled a value of 1 to enable Hibernation and 0 to disable Hibernation.

4] Use Ultimate Windows Tweaker

While you can always use our Ultimate Windows Tweaker, to enable or disable Hibernate easily in a click.

Microsoft has released a Fix It solution specifically for this purpose. See if the Fix-It applies to your version of Windows:

Disable Hibernation using Fix It 50462 | Enable Hibernation using Fix-It using 50466. [They have been discontinued now].

Do remember that in Windows 11/10/8.1, if you disable Hibernate, it will disable Fast Startup too.

The option to hibernate Windows launched with Windows XP has been one of my most loved features ever. Using hibernation, I could save all my open files from the Random Access Memory (RAM) to the hard disk and resume my work from where I left it.

In Windows 8, Microsoft has introduced the feature of fast startup (fast boot) which can boot up Windows in 1/10th time as compared to earlier versions and disabled the option to hibernate from the default power options. Fast boot is a great feature but it does not save an active session as the hibernate option did. If you are missing the Hibernate option in Windows 8 and would like to enable it, here’s how it’s done.

Enable Hibernate in Windows 8

Step 1: If you are running Windows 8 on a laptop, click on the battery icon on the system tray and select More Power Options to open Windows 8 Power Options.

Desktop users will have to open the Windows 8 Start Screen and search for Power Options in the settings section.

Step 2: In Windows 8 power options, click on the link Choose what closing the lid does to open Windows 8 Power System Settings.

Step 3: In System Settings, you will see the hibernate option under the Shutdown settings but it will be disabled and all the controls to change it will be in lockdown. Click on the link Change Settings that are currently unavailable.

Step 4: You can now put a check on the Hibernate and save the settings to enable it.

After you enable the hibernate option, you can choose it for the power button press on computer and closing the lid event on laptops. It’s convenient pressing the Windows hotkey to launch power menu every time.

Conclusion

From the next time when you try to shutdown Windows 8, either from the Modern UI or the classic shutdown window, you will see the hibernate option. Please note that after you enable the hibernate feature, some amount of space on your Windows drive will be secured to save your session when you hibernate Windows.

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Windows has a Sleep and Hibernate options. Sleep and Hibernation options are most useful features when you don’t want to shut down your laptop. With these options, you can quick access your laptop because you don’t need to again boot up your laptop. Read this post to know how to enable hibernate in windows 10.

What is Hibernation: When you hibernate your PC/Laptop, then it saves your open documents and running programs on the hard disk. And when you turn on your PC/Laptop then it restores all data from hard disk. It doesn’t consume the power of the battery of your laptop. If you don’t want to close your running applications, you can use hibernation. When you press the power button on your laptop after hibernate, your all programs are still in running state and documents are open.

What is Sleep Mode: When you put your laptop to sleep mode, Your all document, running programs are kept in memory (RAM) and consumes very less power. When you again turn on your laptop, then all programs that are opened again restore within seconds. When you press the power button on your laptop after sleeping your laptop, your all programs are still in running state and documents are open.

There is an option of hibernation in previous versions of windows. But in windows 10 you need to manually turn on this feature.

How To Enable Hibernate In Windows 10 And Add To Power Menu:

1. Open Power Options by pressing Windows key + X or by right click on the Start Menu.
2. Click On Choose what the power button does from the left side.
3. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
4. Turn On Hibernation (Show in power menu) under Shutdown settings.
5. Click on Save changes.

How To Set Hibernation, Sleep As When You Press Power Button And Close Led Of Your Laptop:

By default When you press the Power button on your laptop, your laptop goes to sleep. And when you close the led of your laptop, your laptop also goes to sleep. You can manually set these options too:

• Do nothing (Your laptop will always on)
• Sleep (Your laptop Will goes to sleep)
• Hibernate.
• Shutdown.
• Turn off the display (the display of your PC/Laptop will be turn off).

Here’re the steps to do this:

1. Open Power Options by pressing the Windows key + X or by right click on Start Menu.
2. Click On Choose what the power button does or Choose what closing the led does from the left side.
3. Here’re the two options Choose what the power button does and Choose what closing the led does. Select your option that you want.
4. Click on Save Changes.

Hibernation is a most useful feature in Windows. Because it doesn’t consume battery power of your laptop. When you press the power button on your laptop after hibernate, your all programs are still in running state and documents are open.

Windows operating systems have seen additions of several highly useful features throughout the evolution cycle of the OS. From Windows XP to Windows 7 was the most major leap that the Redmond company ever made, both in aesthetics and in the feature set that the operating system had to offer. Jump lists, aero Snap and dynamic search are just some examples that one can quote in this context. However, that doesn’t mean that highly revered features didn’t exist prior to that. Windows XP was the first operating system to introduce Hibernation, and beyond doubt, that was one of the most useful power features that the operating system came with, allowing the user to save the state of the whole machine when powering it down, and consequently resuming work much faster than a cold start.

With Windows 8, a lot of things changed in comparison to the previous iterations, and not just in terms of the new Modern UI. The operating system also saw the addition of several new features (take the Ribbon UI, for instance), and removal of others. However, as the OS was built with a tablet and desktop approach, it went for a hybrid approach, thereby resulting if certain areas of the offered features getting hidden despite remaining a part of the operating system. Within power options, Shut Down is the biggest example, where the removal of the Start Orb resulted in a much more complicated process for powering down your machine. Granted, you won’t want to power down a tablet very often, but if you’re a desktop or notebook user, that certainly was annoying. Another similarly missing power option (apparently) is Hibernate, which, although not readily visible, is still a part of the operating system, and you just have to enable it.

In this article, we’ll show you how to enable Hibernation on Windows 8.

Step 1: In your system tray, click the battery icon and select More power options from the panel that pops up.

Step 2: In the power options window, select either “Choose what closing the lid does” or “Choose what the power button does” from the left panel.

Step 3: In the next window, click the blue text that says “Change settings that are currently unavailable”

Step 4: At the bottom of the windows, a new set of options will become available. Check the box next to Hibernate and click Save changes.

That’s it – Hibernate will now show up in power options. Pull up the Charms bar using the Win + C combination, go to Settings and click the Power button. You’ll see that Hibernate has been added to the list, allowing you to save your system state at any time and resume where you left off.

Update x1: We have tested and can confirm that the above illustrated method is compatible to works with the latest version of Windows 8.1.

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This article provides help to solve an issue where the process fails when you try to shut down or hibernate the system on a computer.

Applies to: В Windows 10 – all editions
Original KB number: В 3211190

Symptoms

When you try to shut down or hibernate the system on a computer that’s running Windows 10 or Windows 8.1, the process fails and reverts to the Windows Lock screen.

Additionally, when you go to the Details tab in this event and then select friendly view, you may notice the following:

0000: 00000000 00000001 00000000 C004002D
0010: 00002005 C0000034 00000000 00000000
0020: 00000000 00000000

C0000034 – means STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND

C004002D – means IO_DUMP_DRIVER_LOAD_FAILURE

Cause

This issue may occur if Fast Startup is enabled under Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\System Settings. When Fast Startup is enabled and a user shuts down the computer, all sessions are logged off, and the computer enters hibernation. As part of the hibernation process, Windows initializes the system’s memory dump configuration. If the driver is not loaded, it fails to hibernate, and the event that’s mentioned in the Symptoms section is logged. This brings you back to the Windows Lock screen.

Resolution

This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, see How to back up and restore the registry in Windows.

To resolve this issue, check whether event ID 45 is logged in the System log. If you see this event, verify the contents under the DumpFilters registry value:

Open the Run box. To do this, press the Windows logo key‌ + R.

Type regedit, and then press Enter.

Locate and click the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl\

From the pane on the right, verify the contents under the DumpFilters registry value.

Remove everything and make sure that dumpfve.sys is the only value listed.

Exit Registry editor.

Restart the computer to enable Fast Startup.

Workaround

If you want to shut down the computer without using the Hybrid Shutdown behavior, you can use Shutdown.exe instead. Full shutdown is the default when you use Shutdown.exe, as follows:

The Shutdown.exe command also includes an optional /hybrid parameter that can be used if you want to use the new method:

• The Fast Startup setting doesn’t apply to Restart.
• Fast Startup is enabled by default in Windows.
• Disabling Fast Startup is not recommended.

More information

During Fast Startup, the kernel session is not closed, but it is hibernated. Fast Startup is a setting that helps the computer start faster after shutdown. Windows does this by saving the kernel session and device drivers (system information) to the hibernate (hiberfil.sys) file on disk instead of closing it when you shut down the computer.

When you restart the computer, this typically means that you want a completely new Windows state, either because you have installed a driver or replaced Windows elements that cannot be replaced without a full restart.

Therefore, the restart process in Windows continues to perform a full boot cycle, without the hibernation performance improvement that’s described in this article.

This Windows tutorial, we will discuss, how to enable hibernate in windows server 2016.

By default when you install windows server 2016, the hibernate option will not be there. But we can enable by running some commands.

Recently I installed Windows server 2016 in one laptop and I found that there is no hibernate option. The same way we can also enable hibernate in windows server 2012 r2.

Hibernate is a good feature in Windows operating system, maybe in windows 10/8/7 or in Windows Server 2016 or Windows server 2012 r2. If your desktop or laptop is in hibernate mode then it will not use any power. It saves the state of the laptop or desktop and you can get as it is when you turned on the machine.

Enable hibernate in Windows Server 2016

Open the command prompt by pressing Window+R and then type cmd in the Run command window. Or you can go to Start -> go to the Windows section and then Windows System -> Command Prompt.

Then in the command prompt type the below command to see various command available related to hibernate.

There you can see various command options for hibernate like below:

Now to enable hibernate type the below command in the command prompt.

Now if you check hibernate option will appear. To check this, go to Start -> Settings. Then click on System.

In the Settings dialog box, click on Power & Sleep and then click on “Additional power settings”.

Then select, “Choose what closing the lid does”.

There you can see the option “When I close the lid”, and in the options Hibernate in the dropdown for both On battery and Plugged in option like below:

This way we can enable hibernate in windows server 2016.

Disable Hibernate in Windows Server 2016

Similarly, if you want to disable hibernate in windows server 2016, run the below command in the same command prompt.

The above command will disable hibernate in windows server 2016. The same way you can also disable sleep mode in windows server 2012.

Hibernate in Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

Ideally, no one wants to hibernate Windows Server 2016 datacenter but you can follow the above steps to hibernate windows server 2016 datacenter.

But while enabled hibernate in windows server 2016 (shutdown -h), if you got an error like The request is not supported.(50). Then run powercfg -h on and then run shutdown -h.

Enable Hibernation on Windows 10

You can enable hibernation on windows by using the below command.

• Open the command prompt in administrator mode.
• And then type powercfg /hibernateon and click on Enter.
• After this, you can see the hibernation is enabled in the windows.

Disable Hibernation On Windows 10

The same way we can disable Hibernate in Windows 10.

Open the command prompt as an administrator mode. Then type powercfg /hibernate off and click on Enter.

How to Show Hibernate option in Power Menu in Windows 10/8

If you do not see Hibernate option in the Power menu then you can follow the below solution.

Open Power Options and then click on “Choose what the power buttons do“.

Then in System Settings, click on “Change settings that are currently unavailable“.

There you can scroll down and go to the Shutdown settings and check the “Hibernate” checkbox.

Now if you will check in the Power option, you can see the Hibernate option in Windows 10.

Enable Hibernate in Windows 10 from Registry

You can also enable hibernate in Windows 10 from Registry editor.

First, Open registry editor (Window + R -> Then type regedit in Run box and then click on Enter).

In the registry go to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power.

Double click on HibernateEnabled.

Then in the Edit DWORD (32-bit) value dialog box, change the Value data to 1 and then click on OK.

Now when you will open the Start menu in Windows 10, you can see the Hibernate option.

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In this windows tutorial, we learned how to enable or disable hibernate in windows server 2016, windows server 2012 r2, and in windows 10.

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This article guides you to enable Hibernation on your windows 8&8.1 Laptop.

What is Hibernation?

Hibernate is a process or service available in “Windows Operating Systems”. Hibernate mode saves all of your open documents and running applications to your hard disk and shuts your Laptop.

In simple terms, Hibernate mode will consume zero power and shuts down your system by saving any opened documents and running applications and resume the same once powered up.

It is advised to use this style, only if you won’t be using your Laptop for an extended period of time.

This guide gives you the procedure to enable Hibernation on your Windows 8.1 powered Laptop:

Step 1: Open ‘Control Panel’ and choose ‘All control panel items’

Step 2: Clicking “Power Options” will convey you to the control panel. Now click on “Choose what the power button do” on the left hand side of the control panel window.

Step 3: After which you will be able to see three options: 1. When I press the power button. 2. When I press the sleep button. 3. When I close the lid. Here you can select which option you want to make it as Hibernate.

Like a guess, based on your option you will be able to use Hibernation mode either by closing the lid or by pressing the power button.

Step 4: Try to open some game or some application or some document and Hibernate, and then again boot up your device to assure all the applications or documents or games resumed.

Alternatively, you can download Wise Auto Shutdown, there is also the hibernation option in it, but it is more like an extended function of hibernation, you can choose any time you want( like a specific time or daily) to hibernate the laptop. For example, you are downloading something, you can’t wait until the download finishes and then hibernate the laptop, or you leave the laptop music on when sleeping, then the timing hibernation comes real handy.

Conclusion

Hibernation is one of the best options specially made for lazy people or busy people who even don’t have enough time to save their data before closing the Laptop.

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The Hibernate mode in Windows 10 is primarily designed to save battery life on Windows Laptops, you will find below the steps to enable or disable Hibernate Mode in Windows 10.

Hibernate Mode in Windows 10

While both Sleep Mode and Hibernate Mode are Power Saving Modes in Windows 10, the Hibernate Mode is specifically designed to conserve battery life on Windows Laptops.

When Hibernate mode is enabled on your laptop, it will be setup to save data to a hidden file (hiberfil.sys) located on the hard disk, without draining its battery life.

When you return back to the laptop and turn it ON, you will be able to resume work from from where you left it off.

In comparison, the Sleep Mode saves data in the system memory, while consuming a small amount of Power or battery life.

1. Enable Or Disable Hibernate Mode in Windows 10

The easiest way to enable or disable Hibernate Mode in Windows 10 is by using the Command Prompt (Admin).

1. Right-click on Start button and click on Windows PowerShell (Admin) or Command Prompt (Admin).

2. On the Command Prompt Window, type powercfg –h off and press the Enter key on the keyboard of your computer.

Once the Command is executed, Hibernate Mode will be disabled and “hiberfil.sys” file will be removed from the hard disk of your computer.

Note: Disabling Hibernate Mode will also disable Windows 10 “Fast Boot” feature on your computer. Fast Boot uses the same technology and does not work without Hibernate.

At any time you can Enable Hibernate Mode in Windows 10 by opening the Command prompt and typing powercfg –h on and pressing the Enter key.

This will enable the Hibernate mode on your computer.

2. Enable or Disable Hibernate Mode Using Registry

Another way to enable or disable Hibernate mode in Windows 10 is by using the Registry Editor.

1. Right-click on the Start button and click on Run .

Note: You can also press Win + R Keys to bring up the Run Command.

2. In the Run Command Window, type regedit and click on OK .

3. On the Registry Editor screen, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ Power and double-click on HibernateEnabled DWORD in the right-pane.

4. On the next screen, you can enable Hibernate Mode by changing the Value Data to 1 and disable Hibernate Mode by changing Value Data to 0.

5. Click on OK to close the registry editor and save the changes on your computer.

The Hibernate setting, not to be puzzled with the Rest function, on Windows OS conserves battery, yet the most effective component is, you can shut your cover to trigger it. Numerous users have reported a mistake where their PC went to lock screen rather than hibernating. While not earth-shattering yet still a discomfort factor.

Hibernate plans to conserve valuable battery juice without shutting open applications permitting customers to return to job promptly. A lock display, on the various other hand, is to quit burglars from accessing your valuable information. The computer system is still running and also you must check out the lock display when awakening the computer system from hibernation.

Allow’s have a look at some remedies.

1. Close down or Eliminate Lock Display and also Password

This is a momentary option till you locate what’s pestering your computer system. Closing down your computer system is uncomplicated, yet you need to conserve all open documents prior to doing that.

You can quickly disable the lock screen in Windows 10, and also it is similarly simple to re-enable it. We advise you repair hibernate, resulting in secure display mistake nevertheless as the lock display is there for a factor. If this does not function, there is additionally a method to remove Windows password, yet that would certainly benefit the regional account just and also not the Microsoft account.

2. Power Recycle

Eliminate the plug from the electrical outlet or detach the billing wire from your laptop computer. Currently, press and also hold the power switch for a couple of minutes till the laptop computer closes down. Once again, wait a couple of minutes, and also power it on.

3. Run Power Troubleshooter

Every variation of Windows included a troubleshooter that can locate and also repair a variety of usual mistakes customers deal with on their computer system. There is one for power also.

Action 1: Press Windows secret+ I to open up Setups and also look for the ‘Find and fix problems with your computer’ s power setups’ choice.

Action 2: In the pop-up that adheres to, pick ‘Apply repairs automatically’ and also click Alongside comply with on-screen directions.

The only means to inspect if hibernate mosts likely to the lock display or otherwise is to place the computer system in hibernate setting.

4. Close History Applications

An application running in the history might be quiting the computer system from entering into hibernation. Either quit the running procedure or wait on it to complete. One instance might be antivirus running a routine check behind-the-scenes. There are many applications that run in the history.

Press Ctrl+ Change+ Esc tricks to release the Job Supervisor to inspect running jobs and also procedures under the Processes tab. To finish a running job, right-click on it and also pick End job. We do not advise shutting system procedures needed for running your computer system. Concentrate on applications that you acknowledge and also utilize rather.

5. Produce New Power Account

A default power account is produced on your Windows computer system when you set up the OS for the very first time. You can either modify it to your preference or produce a brand-new one from the ground up. For repairing hibernate associated problems, we recommend producing a brand-new account.

Action 1: Open Up Windows Setups once again by pushing Windows secret+ I and also most likely to System > > Power & & Rest and also pick Extra power setups.

Action 2: Click ‘Create a power plan’ choice.

Call your brand-new power strategy and also established timers for rest, and also various other settings as you desire and also lastly, conserve modifications.

6. Present Chauffeur

The display screen switches off when you placed the computer system to rest or hibernate setting. A malfunctioning display screen chauffeur can protect against the display from switching off, resulting in the lock display. We have actually covered upgrading, rollback, and also re-installing vehicle drivers prior to.

You will certainly locate the display screen vehicle drivers under the Present adapters heading in the Tool Supervisor.

7. Re-Enable Hibernate Setting

Disabling and also re-enabling the hibernate setting might aid start points on your end.

Action 1: Look For Command Trigger in the Begin food selection and also click ‘Run as administrator’ to release it with right consents.

Action 2: Kind the listed below command to transform the hibernate function off. Change words ‘off’ with ‘on’ to allow it.

powercfg/ hibernate off

Extra Power to You

The hibernate function comes in handy. It enables you to optimize that battery juice when you are taking a trip or walking around without conserving and also shutting all the documents and also applications. Whatever will certainly be equally as when you left it. And also there are a couple of means to trigger hibernate setting. As we talked about previously, you can either do it from the beginning food selection > > Power choices or shut the cover.

We wish these remedies aided and also currently, the computer system mosts likely to hibernation rather than resulting in the lock display. Have you attempted securing your computer system initially prior to allowing hibernate setting? It helped lots of.

Successive: Is your computer system closing down each time you place it right into rest or hibernate setting? Right here are some remedies that will certainly aid you settle this problem properly.

As mentioned in a previous article, the hibernation feature in Windows 8 can have a direct impact on your computer’s performance (as it reduces the booting times impressively), therefore, unless you are having a serious issue, it is recommended that you keep it enabled.

However, if you want to disable it (say that you’re running out of free space on your Windows partition, and one cannot move the ‘hiberfile.sys’ to another partition either. If that is the case then you can try reducing its size though), then it can be done pretty easily.

For that, please follow the below steps.

First, press the ‘Windows key’ on your keyboard to open the ‘Start screen’ window.

Then, simply search for the below term (just type it).

As you can see in the above picture, as soon as you do that, Windows 8 will find you the ‘cmd’ (‘command prompt’) utility.

Then move your mouse pointer over its icon and right click on it. When you do that, on the bottom of that page, a new options panel will be opened. From those options, choose the one called ‘Run as administrator’, as shown below.

Click on the ‘Yes’ button of the message that appears next.

After that, the ‘command prompt’ in Windows 8 will be opened with administrative privileges. Once it is opened, simply type the below command on its window (or you can copy it and right click on the ‘cmd’ window and choose ‘paste’ as well) and hit the ‘Enter’ key.

If it was successfully executed, then you should get a blank output (as shown above), and the hibernate file (‘hiberfile.sys’) should now be gone. That’s it.

How to get it back ?

Pretty simple. Follow the above first four steps to open up the ‘command prompt’ in administrative privileges. And then to enable it, this time, enter the below command instead of the above one.

How to know if it is disabled ?

Well, if you have a large RAM, then you can make a note of the disk space usage before and after disabling it. And you should see a reduction (more or less, depending on the capacity of your RAM) in the disk space usage.

Or, you can go to ‘Control Panel’ -> ‘Hardware and Sound’ -> ‘Power Options’ -> ‘Change what power buttons do’, options page.

In this page, under the ‘Shutdown settings’ section at the bottom, you will only see two options listed (‘Sleep’ & ‘Lock’), where previously it had two more options called: ‘Turn on fast start-up (recommended)’ and ‘Hibernate’.

Note: As mentioned above, please remember that, if you disable hibernation in Windows 8, then it will affect your OS’s booting times negatively. So again, unless you really have no choice, keep it enabled. Here is a simple graph showing the booting times for my Vostro V131 notebook with and without ‘hybrid boot’ (which gets disabled when you disable ‘hibernation’ in Windows 8) …

Hibernation is one feature which we use quite a lot on our Windows PCs and laptops since there are some situations when we want o quickly shut our system but don’t want to lose the work we haven’t saved. For folks who have no idea what Hibernation means then let me give you a brief defination of Hibernation, it basically is a feature in Windows which allows the RAM contents to be written or saved to the hard disk before you power off your computer. After hibernating, the system is completely powered down (just like for a regular shutdown). Upon resumption, the computer is exactly as it was upon entering hibernation. For better explanation, an example would do like if you have some documents say 5 documents open before you hibernate your system, the system will resume with the same documents opened. Basically your system will resume from where you had left it thus letting you go ahead with your work without have to opening apps again and again.

Although Windows 8 is releasing on October 29th but many of us have been using Windows 8 through previews and one surprising thing we’ve all noticed is the missing “hibernate” button by default and as we know hibernation is one great useful feature most of us use then we thought why not tell our readers too on how to bring back the “hibernate” option.

To enable the ‘hibernate’ option, firstly click the battery icon in the system tray and then select “more power” options.

Then, select “Choose what the Power buttons do” option from left sidebar.

The next step is to select the option that says “Change settings that are currently unavailable”.

There you will find a tick box on the lower page saying “Show Hibernate”. You just have to go ahead and check “Show Hibernate” option to enable and click Save Changes.

After that get to the Charms Bar and then the power options, you will find the “Hibernate” option in it.

Thats it, you have enabled hibernation on your Windows 8 system. As we can all notice, Windows 8 is pretty much faster in cold-booting than Windows 7 since reportedly it uses a technique which hibernates the system kernel. For number lovers here, the approximate time for system resumption from hibernation state in Windows 8 takes around 8 seconds or more which is time saving for power users who like to get about their work quickly.

We hope this might have been useful for you as many people use the “hibernate” option regularly and to not find it by defaut in the latest Windows platform is certainly disappointing. We hope Microsoft has brought it back in the final Windows 8 build.

Your Windows 10 PC Doesn’t Have Hibernate Option?

Here’s How To Add it or enable it!

Hibernation is a state between a traditional shutdown and sleep mode, in which the computer takes a snapshot of your system files and drives before saving it to your hard drive and shutting down.

The benefit of hibernating is that it allows your machine to start up faster since it doesn’t need to spend the time to re-establish those files and drivers.

So here’s how you can enable hibernate in Windows 10.

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If you want to use hibernate on a regular basis, you might want to add it on your Start menu >power option.

To do this, you will need to go into the Control Panel and find the Power Options . Within that, choose the option in the left that says Choose what the power buttons do .

On the next screen, click on the blue link that says Change settings that are currently unavailable .

Now scroll down to the bottom half of the page, click the checkbox next to hibernate and save your changes. The Hibernate option will now show up in your Start Menu on your windows 10 when you click the Power button.

How To Disable Hibernation Mode In Windows 10

Hibernate is not enabled by default and most people do not really use it. However, when it is enabled it generally takes around 75% of your RAM due to the disk space that it reserves.

The hiberfil.sys file is the file responsible for the hibernation and is allotted the 75% RAM space. Thus if the total RAM on your machine is 8 GB this file alone will take up 6 GB. Therefore, if you need that RAM it is probably a good idea to have the hibernate mode disabled.

Here’s how to disable hibernation in Windows 10:

Step 1:

Open up your command prompt by right-clicking on your Start menu .

Step 2:

In the command prompt, type the command – powercfg.exe /hibernate off and hit Enter.

How to enable hibernation in Windows 10:

Step 3:

To enable hibernation in windows 10 if you need it, type the command – powercfg.exe /hibernate on in the command prompt and hit Enter .

So this was how you can hibernate your windows pc, enable or disable the hibernate options.

Hibernation is a feature of Windows that comes in handy while leaving your PC for a couple of hours without the need to completely shut down the system and conserve power at the same time. Hibernating the PC saves everything opened at that time into the hard disk and turns off the PC. When you restart, the previous state of the PC will be loaded from the hard disk. This quickens the Windows Boot speed while saving energy.

However, there are also issues with hibernation. Plenty of bugs and errors have been associated with hibernation and it is possible that you may need to disable it. In this article, I have discussed how to turn off hibernation in Windows 10.

Why Disable Hibernation?

Hibernating the PC saves the state of the system in the hard disk in the hyberfil.sys file, which then loads after the computer restarts. This allows the user to turn off the PC without the need to worry about opening the previously opened. Also, as the state is loaded from the hard disc, the Windows 10 boot time is very fast.

All of these are plus points for activating hibernation, however, as the state of the PC is saved in the hard disc, it takes a certain space. This state of the system is stored in the hyberfil.sys file, that cannot be deleted other than disabling hibernation. Other than that, any error or bug happening during the system state was saved also gets saved. This means that when you load your PC next time, the errors and bugs are also loaded.

How To Turn Off Hibernation In Windows 10?

In Windows 10 turn off hibernate using various methods. Here I have mentioned these 2 methods to disable it and 1 method to remove it from the Power options. You can use, whichever one you like.

Method 1: Turn Hibernate Off In Windows 10 Using Command Prompt

To turn off hibernation using Command Prompt, follow the steps given below:

1. Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run utility.
2. Type cmd and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter.
3. Confirm the UAC dialog. An elevated Command Prompt will open.
4. Type the following command and press Enter:
   powercfg –h off
5. Close the Command Prompt.

Similarly, enter the command powercfg –h on in Command Prompt to enable it again.

Method 2: Turn Hibernate Off In Windows 10 Using PowerShell

In Windows 10 turn off hibernate using PowerShell by following the steps given below:

1. Right-click on the Start menu and select the Windows PowerShell (Admin) option.
2. Type the following command and press Enter:
   powercfg –h off
3. Close the PowerShell window.

To enable hibernate, use the command powercfg –h on in the PowerShell.

How To Make Hibernation Unavailable From Power Options?

To make hibernation unavailable in the Power Options, follow the steps given below:

1. Type Control Panel in the Windows Start menu and click on the top option.
2. Change the View by option to Small icons.
3. Select the Power option.
4. Click on the Choose what the power buttons do option in the left panel. This will open the Edit Power plan window.
5. Click on the Change settings that are currently unavailable option.
6. In the Shutdown Settings section, uncheck the Hibernation option.
7. Select the Save Changes option.

Wrapping Up

So, there you have it. Now you know how to turn off hibernation in Windows 10. If you have any other questions regarding this article, ask them in the comment section below.

About Sanmay Chakrabarti

Sanmay is a Windows Insider and editor at Digicruncher. He is a Tech enthusiast and has been writing tech blogs for over 2 years now. He loves reading books, traveling to new places and listening to music in his free time.

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Windows has long offered two ways to “pause” your computer without actually shutting it down: Sleep mode and Hibernate mode.

Sleep is often referred to as “standby,” a low-power state that enables your computer to “wake up” almost instantly when you open the lid or hit the power button.

Hibernate, on the other hand, saves your current system state to the hard drive, then effectively shuts down the system. When you start it up again, it restores that state, letting you resume from where you left off. Think of it as “deep sleep.”

I like Hibernate because it doesn’t draw any additional power the way Sleep does. (With the latter on a laptop, you can come back a day or two later to a dead battery.) But if you’re a Windows 10 user, you may have noticed there’s no Hibernate option when you click Start > Power.

In fact, my Asus ZenBook had this option, but after I upgraded to Windows 10, it disappeared.

Fortunately, it’s easy to restore Hibernate mode. Here’s how:

Step 1: Open Control Panel and head to the Power Options page. (You can get here any number of ways, including just typing “power options” in Windows Search.) Then click Choose what the power buttons do.

Step 2: Click Change settings that are currently unavailable, then scroll down to the bottom of that window to find the “Shutdown settings” section.

Step 3: Check the box next to Hibernate, then click Save changes.

Done! Now you’ll see a Hibernate option in the Power menu.

It’s worth noting that while you’re monkeying around in that settings window, you can make Hibernate the default option for when you press the power button, press the sleep button (if your machine has one) or close the lid.