PC Hibernation

[Deleted User]

Hi everyone, I don't seem to have the hibernate option on my laptop; I just have the restart, sleep and shut down. What do I need to do to put my laptop in the hibernate state, or is the sleep mode the same thing?

JezCooke

Tick the box labelled 'Enable Hibernation' on the 'Hibernate' tab in 'Power Options' in 'Control Panel'.

[Deleted User]

JezCooke wrote: »

Tick the box labelled 'Enable Hibernation' on the 'Hibernate' tab in 'Power Options' in 'Control Panel'.

Hi Jez, Thanks for your reply. When I click on power options, all I get is 3 options - Balanced, Power saver and High Performance. I don't see anything to do with a hibernate tab. My OS is windows vista; would this make a difference?

ChiefGrasscutter

Under XP the hibernate option is hidden on the "turn off" sub menu regardless of whether you have ticked the tab to allow hibernation in the power options.

When you get to the turn off options press shift and the 'standby' option will change to 'hibernate': and hence enable you to select it.
There is a registry mod you can do, well documented on the web, if you are confident in manually editing the registry and are running SP3 of XP to enable an extra button entitled "hibernate" to appear on the turn off options sub menu - so you then get options of hibernate, standby, turn off, restart.
I've done it on my laptop as I use hibernate on it regularly.

I don't know about win 7.

bbuckle

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

I don't know about win 7.

On Windows 7 it is part of the shutdown menu, accessed by clicking the arrow next to the shutdown button itself.

[Deleted User]

Thank you guys, but my OS is vista - not XP or windows 7. I presume I need to do something different. Can someone please tell me what I need to do.

DarkConvict

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/25/how-to-enable-and-turn-on-hibernation-feature-in-windows-vista/

[Deleted User]

DarkConvict wrote: »

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/25/how-to-enable-and-turn-on-hibernation-feature-in-windows-vista/

Thank you DarkConvict - that did the job. I would not have found that out in a million years.

JasX

[quote=[Deleted User];31229039]Thank you DarkConvict - that did the job. I would not have found that out in a million years.[/QUOTE]

Although hibernate is probably the least efficient of the sleep states, if you want fast boot up times with very low power put it to SLEEP, if you want even lower power and are not fussed by boot time turn it OFF,

swvillafan

[quote=[Deleted User];31229039]Thank you DarkConvict - that did the job. I would not have found that out in a million years.[/QUOTE]

Hi there, I remember having this prob on my Vista laptop. It always happened after I'd done a disk cleanup and removed the hibernate files (they take up approx 1gb space). If you do a disk cleanup make sure not to tick the hibernate option!

John_Gray

swvillafan wrote: »

Hi there, I remember having this prob on my Vista laptop. It always happened after I'd done a disk cleanup and removed the hibernate files (they take up approx 1gb space). If you do a disk cleanup make sure not to tick the hibernate option!

The size of the hyberfil.sys file is the same as, or slightly less than, the amount of real memory you have. That's because it contains what was in memory at hibernate time!