How To Enable Hibernate Option In Windows 10, 8, 7

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Last updated on September 20th, at 03:54 pm

When you open the Start menu in Windows 10 and select the power button, there is no Hibernate mode option. In this article we will show you 2 methods on how to enable hibernate option in Windows 10, 8, 7.

Hibernation is a state, when your computer hibernates, it takes a snapshot of your system files and drivers, programs that are open and saves that snapshot to your hard drive before shutting down.

When you start your computer next time your computer start up faster, because it doesn’t need to re-establish those files and settings.

In windows XP enabling the hibernate option is easy, but in windows 10 its missing  we need to follow a little different approach to enable hibernate mode.

Hibernation is a power saving mode designed primarily for the Laptops but can also be enabled in desktop computers.

In hibernation mode all your open documents, programs remains safe even if the system is turned off, so when you re-start your system you are back to where you left with all your programs and half done work as it is.

Hibernation mode do not consume any battery, unlike in sleep mode which consumes little amount of battery.
The Hibernate button can disappear after a disk cleanup or if you have deleted the hibernate file, in such case you will not see the hibernate option on the right side of the shut down button.

In case you missed: How to put your Laptop  to hibernate automatically when you close the LID

2 Methods to enable hibernate option in Windows 10, 8

METHOD-1

Click on start button and on the search box type cmd 

From the menu right click on the cmd program and choose to “Run as administrator”

This will open the Windows command prompt window. In the command prompt window type

powercfg /hibernate on

command prompt window

then press enter and exit from the command prompt. Now check again, if the hibernate button reappears than you are done, if not follow the second method.

METHOD-2 

If the first method doesn’t work than, go to > control panel > Power options > change Plan settings  >

change power settings

then click on Change Advanced Power settings >   then you will get the “ Power options” window,

Enable Hibernate Option In Windows 10In power options window scroll down and under the “ Allow Hybrid sleep” option click on the “ + “ sign to expand here you must make sure both the options “ On battery” and “ Plugged in” is disabled, that is in “ OFF” mode.

Then click on OK to save your settings ( see the image below”).

Enable Hibernate Option In Windows 10

After this the Hibernate option will be enabled under windows shut down menu.

Hope this article was helpful

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