Where's hibernate gone in Windows7?

[VectraMan]

It worked for me (on 2 computers). You have to do both steps.

But I still can't get my laptop to hibernate after 2 hours on sleep, which is what it's set to do, and used to work under Vista. It's the one single tiny thing I've found where Vista was better.

I guess people with laptops use sleep, and people with desktops use neither. Hibernate probably just confuses the average user who doesn't understand the difference between that and sleep. Hiding it by default makes sense, but they could have made switching it on a bit more obvious.

[d000hg]

Got that to run successfully. Hibernate's still not listed in the shutdown menu. Will wait until I next do a full shutdown to re-check.

[TykeMerc]

I have found that. But I always get:I have admin rights and tried the CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER thing with no luck.


And I still haven't found why it's not enabled by default? What's special or exotic about it?

In other news, I have managed to actually set my keyboard sleep kep to enter hibernation which is good, but I still want it on the shutdown menu where it belongs!

You need to open the Cmd box as Administrator, just because you're logged in with admin rights doesn't mean that apps run with admin elevation. It's a design feature.

[d000hg]

I have found that. But I always get:

You do not have permission to enable or disable the Hibernate feature.

I have admin rights and tried the CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER thing with no luck.


And I still haven't found why it's not enabled by default? What's special or exotic about it?

In other news, I have managed to actually set my keyboard sleep kep to enter hibernation which is good, but I still want it on the shutdown menu where it belongs!

[VectraMan]

It's amazing what you can find with search engines:

How To: Enable Or Disable Hibernate Option In Windows 7

[the_rangdo]

Have you got hibernate enabled?

From XP memory it's in the settings for screensaver.

[voodooflux]

THat's what I said, it's not. I have Sleep, Shut Down, but no hibernate. I don't know exactly what Sleep is but I don't think it de-powers the system.

Ah, by "shutdown mode list" I thought you might be referring to the "Turn Off Computer" prompt, rather than the context menu I described.

There are some suggestions that running the command "powercfg /hibernate on" from an elevated command prompt might do the trick.

[Clippy]

Will that add it to the shutdown menu, or as a separate item? I must be able to make it proper option. Why isn't it by default, do they not like hibernate for some reason? Maybe it has issues on some PCs so they leave it as a power option?

Separate item.

Create it on your desktop and then drag it across to your Start Menu.

[d000hg]

Create a new shortcut on your Start Menu with the following target: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /h

Will that add it to the shutdown menu, or as a separate item? I must be able to make it proper option. Why isn't it by default, do they not like hibernate for some reason? Maybe it has issues on some PCs so they leave it as a power option?

[d000hg]

There's a little arrow to the right of "Shutdown" on the start menu that displays a context menu, and it should be an option in there (it is on my system).

THat's what I said, it's not. I have Sleep, Shut Down, but no hibernate. I don't know exactly what Sleep is but I don't think it de-powers the system.

[Clippy]

Create a new shortcut on your Start Menu with the following target: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /h

[voodooflux]

There's a little arrow to the right of "Shutdown" on the start menu that displays a context menu, and it should be an option in there (it is on my system).

[d000hg]

It's not on the shutdown mode list in W7 ultimate... is it gone or hidden?